Sociology 621, Class, State and Ideology

Fall 2013

 

2013 Syllabus
 Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis (eds)  Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (Boston: Brill: 2008) PDF  

 

Lecture Notes & podcasts

Lecture 1. September 3  Marxism as an Emancipatory Social Science Lecture notes 1 & 2

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Lecture 2. September 5     Podcast Lecture 2:   Part 1   Part 2
Lecture 3. September 10   The Anchor: Capitalism Lecture notes 3

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Lecture 4. September 12   The Critique of Capitalism Lecture notes 4

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Lecture 5. September 17   Transformation Lecture notes 5

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Lecture 6. September 19   What is Class? Lecture notes 6

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Lecture 7. September 24   Exploitation Lecture notes 7

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Lecture 8. September 26   Complexities of Class Structure Lecture notes 8

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Lecture 9. October 1   Class & Gender Lecture notes 9

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Lecture 10. October 3   Class & Race Lecture notes 10

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Lecture 11. October 8    Class Formation Lecture notes 11

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Lecture 12. October 10   Rationality, Solidarity, and Class Struggle Lecture notes 12

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Lecture 13. October 15    Dilemmas of Working Class Collective Action Lecture notes 13

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Lecture 14. October 17    Class Compromise Lecture notes 14

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    Podcast Lecture 14:  Part 1  (2 is missing)
Lecture 15. October 22    What is Politics? What is the State? Lecture notes 15

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Lecture 16. October 24    What makes the Capitalist State a Capitalist State? Lecture notes 16

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Lecture 17. October 29   The State and Accumulation: functionality & contradiction Lecture notes 17

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Lecture 18. October 31   The State and the Working class: the problem of democracy Lecture notes 18

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Lecture 19. November 5    What is Ideology? Lecture notes 19

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Lecture 20. November 7    Mystification Lecture notes 20

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Lecture 21. November 12    Hegemony Lecture notes 21

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Lecture 22. November 14    Microfoundations of the Theory of Ideology Lecture notes 22

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Lecture 23. November 19    Classical Historical Materialism Lecture 23 & 24

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    Podcast Lecture 23:  Part 1 (2 is missing)
Lecture 24. November 21     Podcast Lecture 24:  Part 1   Part 2
Lecture 25. December 3    Critiques & Reconstructions Lecture notes 25

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Lecture 26. December 5   The Classical Marxist theory of the history of capitalism's future Lecture notes 26

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    Podcast Lecture 26:  Part 1   Part 2
Lecture 27. December 12    Last Session: the possibility of emancipatory social science  

 

    Podcast Lecture 27:  lecture/discussion