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=__Welcome To The Class Wiki for Benedictine College SO358__=

Learning Goals:
This wiki will provide a space for online interaction and discussion. This internet platform will serve as an online community space for us to collaborate in the hopes of better mastering sociological theory. It will primarily be used for you to synthesize the information learned in class, your text, and your additional readings found on Blackboard. This wiki will provide us with the opportunity to achieve the following learning goals:
 * Mastery of Subject Materials: At a fundamental level student participation on the wiki will demonstrate to me the student's own mastery of class concepts and his or her ability to discipher the complex readings found on Blackboard.
 * Synthesis of Materials: The ability to build a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Puts parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure. Taken from Bloom's taxonomy of learning ([]), the ability to synthesize material is a level of higher learning and an important aspect of higher education.
 * Written Communication: The ability to generate comprehensive, professional written work

I particularly hope that we can use this space to generate a community that does not need to flow through me. That is, I hope that this format will provide an opportunity for students to develop relationships, hash out concepts, and learn from one another without having to look to the professor as a central authority. To that end I hope you will feel free to (respectfully and responsibly) generate pages of your own. Perhaps a discussion on a relevant topic on campus or from the news? I will only edit such pages for offensive content or organizational purposes (However, the contents of these pages will be held to the same academic standards as any other written or group work on campus).

=Student Responsibilities:= Each week two to three students will be responsible for synthesizing the class material with the material in the text book. Students will work //INDEPENDENTLY// and do their best to bring the material together into a comprehensive whole that highlights the most important aspects of the class.

__Students may want to focus on some or all of the following topics:__ > Important assumptions or conclusions
 * Intellectual history of the theory
 * Major players in the theoretical tradition
 * Major questions asked and how they were answered
 * Links to other theories

__Students will be graded according to the following rubric:__ Note: I do not expect this to be an issue, but if even the slightest //hint// of plagerism is detected the wiki assignment will recieve a zero. I will take the uncharacteristic stance of zero-tolerance for two reasons: by this stage in your academic career you should no longer be prone to accidental plagerism and this is a public forum where the theft of anothers words/ideas brings greater consequences than in private.
 * Professionalism of Writing (no grammar mistakes, clear and concise writing, appropriate citations, no plagerism)
 * Mastery of Concepts (appropriate usage of terms, appropriate definitions, ability to discuss issue using class concepts)
 * Synthesis of Work (clear point to your wiki, tells a story, flow between concepts/sections, comprehensive treatment of concepts/literature)
 * All work is due by Friday, 6AM.**

=Navigating This Page:= To the left you will find links to class topics. If it is your responsibility to summarize the class discussion then you should click on the appropriate topic. From there edit the page and create a link to your page, which will summarize the class discussion. Conversly, if you are summarizing the essay link your summary to the theorists page. Here is our list of who is responsible for which subjects: **__ Spring Theory Assignments __** _Joe Briggs_ _Tara McClanahan_ || Marx, Karl. “Wage-Labour and Capital” BB _Jessie Schiffer _Amanda Amthor || _Selina Valles_
 * ** Due Date ** || ** Wiki ** || ** Essay Review ** ||
 * 01/27 || Marxism
 * 02/05 || Weber

_Tony Douglas_ _John O’Grady || Weber, Max. “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” BB _Alex DeLuca _Jack White || _Joe Briggs_ _Tom Fitzgerald_ _Jack White_ || Durkheim, Emile. “The Division of Labor in Society” _Joe Briggs_ _Tara McClanahan_ || _Jessie Schiffer
 * 02/12 || Durkheim
 * 02/19 || Individuals in Society

_Alex DeLuca_ _Amanda Amthor || Simmel, Georg. “Group Expansion and the Development of Individuality.” __Selina Valles___ Casey Barnett Cameron McMillan || _Selina Valles_ _Michael Flynn_ _Jeremy Hamilton_ || DuBois, W.E.B. “The Souls of Black Folk.” _Michael Flynn_ ___Jeremy Hamilton___ || _Fiona Holly_ _Cameron McMillan_ || Habermas, Jurgen. “Modernity: An Unfinished Project” _Selina Valles_ __Joe Briggs__ ___John O’Grady__ || _Tara McClanahan_ _Jack White_ _Jeremy Hamilton_ || Habermas, Jurgen. “The Rationalization of the Lifeworld” Fiona Holly_ Jessie Schiffer_ || _Cameron McMillan_ _Casey Barnett
 * 02/26 || Race and Gender
 * 03/05 || Conflict and Modernity
 * 03/12 || Conflict and Modernity Continued
 * 04/07 || Inequality in the Modern era

_Jessie Schiffer || Collins, Patricia Hill. “Black Feminist Epistemology” __Amanda Amthor__ __Jeremy Hamilton__ __Fiona Holly__ || _Tony Douglas ___Casey Barnett__ _Jack White_ || _Tony Douglas_ _Fiona Holly_ || Goffman, Erving. “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” _Tom Fitzgerald_ ___Tara McClanahan___ || _John O’Grady
 * 04/09 || Inequality in the Modern era || Fanon, Frantz. “Black Skin, White Masks”
 * 04/16 || Revisiting the individual
 * 04/23 || Exchange in society

_Casey Barnett _Michael Flynn_ || Blau, Peter M. “Exchange and Power in Social Life” Alex DeLuca_ Michael Flynn Tom Fitz || _Tom Fitzgerald_
 * 04/30 || Constructed society

___Amanda Amthor__

_Alex DeLuca || Bourdieu, Pierre. “Structures, //Habitus,// Practices” _John O’Grady_ _Cameron McMillan_ _Tony Douglas_ ||