MSTU5606 21

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Teachers College • Columbia University
Wednesdays, 3:00 to 4:40

308 Lewisohn Hall


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Print Syllabus: Fall  •  Spring


Schedule of Meetings

1/20  •  16Mannheim (1893-1947)• Wave 16
1/27  •  17Benjamin (1892-1940)• Wave 17
2/3  •  18Fromm (1900-1980)• Wave 18
2/10  •     TC closed "blizzard"•              
2/17  •  19Horkheimer (1895-1973)• Wave 19
2/24  •  20Adorno (1903-1969)• Wave 20
3/3  •  21Mills (1916-1962)• Wave 21
3/10  •  22Galbraith (1908-2006)• Wave 22
3/24  •  23Marcuse (1898-1979)• Wave 23
3/31  •  24Arendt (1906-1975)• Wave 24
4/7  •  25Habermas (1929- )• Wave 25
4/14  •  26Foucault (1926-1984)• Wave 26
4/21  •  27Bourdieu (1930-2002)• Wave 28
4/28  •  28Jameson (1934- )• Wave 29
5/5  •  29Wrap-up• Wave 30

9/2  •  1Introductory• Study
9/9  •  2Marx & Engels• Study
916  •  3Durkheim (1858-1917)• Study
9/23  •  4Tönnies (1855-1936)• Study
9/30  •  5Simmel (1858-1918)• Study
10/7  •  6Weber (1864-1920)• Study
10/14  •  7DuBois (1868-1963)• Study
10/21  •  8Dewey (1859-1952)• Study
10/28  •  9Mead (1863-1931)• Study
11/4  •  10Luxemburg (1871-1919)• Study
11/11  •  11Lukács (1885-1971)• Study
11/18  •  12Gramsci (1891-1937)• Study
12/2  •  13Schumpeter (1883-1950)• Study
12/9  •  14Polanyi (1886-1964)• Study
12/16  •  15Kracauer (1889-1966)• Study

MSTU5606/MSTU5607

Communication Theory and Social Thought


  • Robbie McClintock, Instructor
    • Office hours @ 2nd floor, Gottesman Library
      Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00 pm and by appointment
  • Frank Moretti, Instructor
    • Office hours @ 603 Lewisohn Hall, by appointment
      (Call Teresa Gonzales, 212 854 1962, or email her teresa@columbia.edu)

Meeting 21  •  February 24 — C. Wright Mills (1916-1962)

Context
  • David B. Truman. "The American System in Crisis." Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Dec., 1959), pp. 481-497. JSTOR.
Text
  • C. Wright Mills. The Power Elite (1956). (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Chapters 1, 5, 6; pp. 3-29, 94-146. Electronic Reserve.
    Treat these chapters as introductory.
  • C. Wright Mills. The Power Elite (1956). (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Chapters 12-15; pp. 269-361. Electronic reserve.
    Lets concentrate on these chapters in our class discussion.
AfterText
  • Richard Gillam. "C. Wright Mills and the Politics of Truth: The Power Elite Revisited." American Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct., 1975), pp. 461-479. JSTOR.
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