社会学理论（二） - 东海大学社会学系.doc

社會學理論﹙博士班﹚ SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION AND INTERROGATION TO FOUCAULT Department of Sociology, Tunghai University Fall, 2010 Tuesday 9:10-12:00 授課教師：黃崇憲 上課時間：星期 9：10AM-12：00AM 聯絡電話：（0436313 電子郵件：momo@.tw 約見時間／地點：週～週三，上午7:30~8:30／東海大學丹堤咖啡館（請事先約定） 辦 公 室：SS539 ?Course Description Sociology is the development of systematic knowledge about social life, the way it is organized, how it changes, its creation in social action, and its disruption and renewal in social conflict. Sociological theory is both a guide to sociological inquiry and an attempt to bring order to its results. Sociological theory is not simply a collection of answers to questions about what society is like. It offers many answers, but it also offers help in posing better questions and developing inquiries that can answer them. Like all of science, thus, it is a process. It is always under development, responding to changes in our social lives and to improvements in our sociological knowledge. This is an advanced and required course for Ph.D graduate students with specific focus on introduction and interrogation to Foucault’s work. But this course will certainly not be attempting to “tell all” in this semester. Rather, Foucault’s work will be stripped of its detailed empirical apparatus in an effort to expose some of its basic underlying structures and principles (捉大放小). Why Foucault? Foucault’s (1926-1984) work has had a tremendous impact in many different disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. And Foucault’s impact on sociology, then, simply cannot be overstated. Some see Foucault’s work as very much an extension of, and complement to, Weber’s analysis of social rationalization. Student’ of social control and deviance, particularly those influenced by labeling theory, cite Discipline and Punish as a revolution in the study of crime and criminality. Foucault’s institutional studies also have had implications for research on organizations. The scope and sophisticatio