Sociological Theory Skeleton Key 1

Introduces Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Overview of the main argument and ...

Content Warning: verbal descriptions of clinical case reports containing sexual violence, violence, torture. This video introduces ...

This video describes how Lacan's writings provide a

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The focus of this recording is on "Antisemitism." It begins with some awkward images from Eduard Fuch's book on ideological ...

This video on Erving Goffman's Interaction Ritual covers "On Facework," along with Hu's "The Chinese Concept of Face" and an ...

Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer project is introduced, including a sketch of the main concepts deployed throughout the book: the ...

Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the Religious Life is introduced with a conceptual and visual overview of the main ...

Honneth's work is located within the tradition of critical

Erving Goffman's Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963) is frequently the first book that students read ...

This lecture situates Goffman's Asylums as a study of high modern complex organizations of the mid 20th century. The focus is ...

Marcel Mauss The Gift

Fromm's Escape from Freedom is presented as a landmark study of Freudian Marxism. Fromm's ideas are reviewed, especially ...