For Monday, 2/1

Prep

  • ‘Too Much Sociology’, n+1 16 (Spring 2013), pp. 1-6. This essay appeared in a small but highly influential journal of opinion and commentary. Despite the title, it is not a sweeping dismissal of sociology in general but rather a critique of the way ideas from the sociology of culture have come to dominate the study of literature and other arts. You will likely find this reading tough going (although it’s not long), so the hyperlink will take you to a version of the text that I’ve annotated.

Zoom Session 

  1. Introductions
  2. Ground Rules
  3. Keywords: cultural capital; habitus; symbolic capital

For Next Time

  • Nelson George, ‘Hip-Hop’s Founding Fathers Speak the Truth’, in Forman and Neal (2012); also available in Forman and Neal (2004)

 

REFERENCES

Forman, Murray, and Mark Anthony Neal. 2012. That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, 2nd Ed. New York: Routledge. 

Forman, Murray, and Mark Anthony Neal. 2004. That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, 1st Ed. New York: Routledge.