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SOCI 4411

Critical Thinkers, Critical Times

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2026

Topics

  • Classical Roots
  • Mead, George Herbert. 1934. “The Self,” pp 347-360 in Calhoun et al (eds.) Classical
  • Prus, Robert. 1996. “Interpretive Roots: Experience as Intersubjective Reality,” pp
  • Herbert Blumer: Perspective and Method
  • Blumer, Herbert. 1969. “The Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism,” pp 1
  • in Blumer’s Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Berkeley, CA
  • Generic Social Processes
  • Ethnographic Research,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 16
  • Puddephatt, Antony and Arthur McLuhan. 2019. “Generic Social Processes: Re
  • imagining a Conceptual Schema for Grounded Theory in the Contemporary Era,”
  • Sociological Focus, 52
  • Language and Mind
  • Albert Bergesen. 2008. “Chomsky vs Mead,” Sociological Theory, 22
  • Antony Puddephatt. 2011. “Language and Mind in the Thought of George Herbert Mead
  • Challenges from Chomsky’s Linguistics,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 36
  • Student book review presentations
Fall 2025 · Critical Thinkers, Critical Times / Special Topics

Topics

  • Session 10 Criticisms of settler colonialism in Canada
  • Fung, A. 2021. "Is Settler Colonialism Just Another Study of Whiteness?". Canadian
  • Ethnic Studies-Etudes Ethniques Au Canada 53:115-31
  • Petray, Theresa. 2012. "Can Theory Disempower? Making Space for Agency in Theories
  • of Indigenous Issues." in Theorising Indigenous Sociology: Australian
  • Perspectives. , edited by D. Howard-Wagner, D. Habibis and T. Petray. Sydney
  • Australia: University of Sydney e-Press
  • process?” Canadian Geographies-Geographies Canadiennes
  • Session 11 and 12 Presentations
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