General Description (概要)
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(1) Social system and power system; (2) value system of the culture and political institution; (3) culture change and political phenomena.
社会構造と権力構造、文化の価値体系と政治制度および文化変動と政治現象を扱う。
In this course, we will read and discuss different analytical approaches to culture in social and political analysis, and their implications for empirical research.
Broadly speaking, there are two distinct types of explanatory strategies in the social sciences: the methodological individualist, on the one hand, and the non-individualist of various kinds, on the other. In theoretical approaches to culture, we similarly find two distinct approaches:
1) Those that treat culture as orientations and preferences of individuals, and
2) Those that consider culture as historical, organizational, and structural features of social life.
In this course, we will mostly focus on the second approach and read widely from the (more or less) cutting-edge research in the subfields of social movement, sociology of culture, and contentious politics.
The course will be divided into two parts. The first part introduces several competing strategies for incorporating culture into social and political analysis. The second part will cover several major themes in politics and culture through the readings and discussions of theoretically-informed empirical researches in which culture plays prominent roles.
The copies of the reading materials will be distributed by the instructor. The participants are expected to attend class meetings well-prepared to discuss the weekly reading materials. To facilitate, the instructor will also distribute a few questions per each assigned reading. The class discussions will evolve around those and other questions.
There is no final examination in this course. For the course evaluation, the participants will instead be asked to submit a short midterm assignment and a final paper assignment. For the final assignment, they will be asked to submit either (a) a critical book review essay, or (b) a short research paper, within two weeks following the last class meeting. The expected length of the final assignment is between 2000 and 4000 words. Please consult the instructor in advance, however, on the selection of the book(s) to review or the outline of the short research paper. He will be available for regular consultation via emails as well as in face-to-face meetings, if requested, in his office at TUFS (easily accessible from the ICU campus).
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Learning Goals(学習目標)
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The goals of this course are three-fold:
1. To enhance the participants’ familiarity with theoretical approaches to culture;
2. To deepen their understanding of linkages between politics and culture; and
3. To help the participants find theoretical approaches suitable for issues of their interest.
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Contents(内容)
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Week 1 (Sep. 9): Course Introduction (no assigned reading)
Part I: Incorporating Culture into Social and Political Analysis
Week 2 (Sep. 16): Theoretical Approaches to Culture (1)--The Individualist Strategy
Eckstein (1988), “A Culturalist Theory of Political Change,” APSR.
Week 3 (Sep. 23): Theoretical Approaches to Culture (2)--The Non-Individualist Strategies
Swidler (1995), "Cultural Power and Social Movements," in Social Movements and Culture, ed. Johnston and Klandermans; and Sewell (1999), “The Concept(s) of Culture” in Beyond the Cultural Turn, ed. Bonnell & Hunt.
Week 4 (Sep. 30): No class -- I will give you a mid-term assignment later to make it up.
Week 5 (Oct. 7): Theoretical Approaches to Culture (3)--A Sociology of Culture Synthesis
Lichterman and Cefai (2006), "The Idea of Political Culture," in the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, ed. Goodin and Tilly; and Lichterman (2012), "Reinventing the Concept of Civic Culture," in the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, ed. Alexander et al.
A midterm assignment will be given this date: due at the beginning of the class on October 21.
Part II: Themes in Cultural Analyses
Week 6 (Oct. 14): Symbolic Boundaries and Immigrant Incorporation
Voyer (2013), "Notes on a Cultural Sociology of Immigrant Incorporation," Am J of Cultural Sociology; and Bail (2008), "The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe," Am Soc Rev.
Week 7 (Oct. 21): The Danish Cartoon (Blasphemy vs. Freedom of Speech) Controversy
Mahmood (2009), "Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?" Critical Inquiry.
Week 8 (Oct. 28): Secularism/Secularity and the Modern State (1)
Talal Asad (2006), "Trying to Understand French Secularism," in Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World, ed. de Vries and Sullivan (Fordham Univ. Pr.), 494-526.
Week 9 (Nov. 4): Secularism/Secularity and the Modern State (2)
Mahmood (2016), Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Princeton Univ. Pr.), Intro., Chs. 2, 4, Epilogue.
Week 10 (Nov. 11): Secularism/Secularity and the Modern State (3)
Sadia Saeed (2012), "Political Fields and Religious Movements: the Exclusion of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan," Political Power and Social Theory (Emerald), Vol. 23, 189-223.
Final assignment: to be sent to matsunaga@tufs.ac.jp by Thursday, November 24.
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Language of Instruction(教授言語の詳細)
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Lecture: English
Readings/Materials: English
Tests/Quizzes/Assignments: English
Discussions/Presentations/Other learning activities: English
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Communication with the instructor: English
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Grading Policy(成績評価基準)
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The final grade will be based on:
1. Active class participation and the midterm assignment: 70 %
2. The final paper assignment: 30%
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Expected study hour outside class(授業時間外学習)
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140 minutes per week.
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References(参考文献)
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A detailed list of recommended books and articles will be distributed at the beginning of the term along with a copy of the updated syllabus.
Just to get an idea about what standard readings for a "politics and culture" course might include, you might want to take a look at the following readers RESERVED at the ICU library counter: CULTURE AND POLITICS: A READER, ed. Lane Crothers and Charles Lockhart (St. Martin's, 2000; 311.13/C937c), especially chapters 1, 3, 10, 13, 14, 15, and 17; and CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY, ed. Lyn Spillman (Blackwell, 2002; 361.6/Sp5c), chs. 10, 21, 26, and 28-30.
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Learning Support Resources for Students (学生のための学修支援リソース)
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If there are learning support resources that are especially recommended for this course, they will be listed below.
Here (ICU Internal page) is the list of learning support resources available at ICU.
このコースで特に利用を推奨する学修支援リソースがある場合、以下に記載されます。
ICUで利用可能なリソースの一覧は こちらです （学内ウェブサイト）。
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Notes(注意事項)
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Schedule(スケジュール)
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2/F,3/F
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URL
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http://www.tufs.ac.jp/ts/personal/matsunaga/
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