Post by ronprice on May 8, 2013 5:59:46 GMT -5
INTRODUCTION
A little more than 50 years ago, just after the autumnal equinox of 21 September 1963, I entered my first sociology classroom at McMaster University. I was 19. After taking that introductory course in sociology that year, 1963/4, and teaching it off-and-on until I retired from FT teaching in 1999 and PT and casual/volunteer teaching in 2005, I decided to keep that portion of my sociology notes connected with sociological theory. It was this subject, this sub-discipline within sociology, that interested me the most. This field of sociology had the most relevance to an understanding of many of the social questions bedevilling our society—or so it seemed to me. It was also a subject that was useful in my exploration of the Baha'i Faith and its place in society.
I have drawn on the structure of the last major sociology theory syllabus I taught in the 1990s in the Human Services section of Thornlie Tafe College, then a part of Swan College of Tafe, and now a polytechnic. I have altered that syllabus in these years of my retirement, 1999 to 2013, as I have extended my base of resources to include some 8 arch-lever and 4 two-ring binder files in that interesting field of study. What is found here, then, represents my interests in sociology after nearly half a century of contact with that illuminating sub-discipline within sociology.
Some other aspects of sociology, aspects with a religious, historical and psychological orientation, can be found in other files in this study under those discipline titles in what has become, inevitably, an interdisciplinary world.
Ron Price
25/3/'09 to 29/12/'13.
A little more than 50 years ago, just after the autumnal equinox of 21 September 1963, I entered my first sociology classroom at McMaster University. I was 19. After taking that introductory course in sociology that year, 1963/4, and teaching it off-and-on until I retired from FT teaching in 1999 and PT and casual/volunteer teaching in 2005, I decided to keep that portion of my sociology notes connected with sociological theory. It was this subject, this sub-discipline within sociology, that interested me the most. This field of sociology had the most relevance to an understanding of many of the social questions bedevilling our society—or so it seemed to me. It was also a subject that was useful in my exploration of the Baha'i Faith and its place in society.
I have drawn on the structure of the last major sociology theory syllabus I taught in the 1990s in the Human Services section of Thornlie Tafe College, then a part of Swan College of Tafe, and now a polytechnic. I have altered that syllabus in these years of my retirement, 1999 to 2013, as I have extended my base of resources to include some 8 arch-lever and 4 two-ring binder files in that interesting field of study. What is found here, then, represents my interests in sociology after nearly half a century of contact with that illuminating sub-discipline within sociology.
Some other aspects of sociology, aspects with a religious, historical and psychological orientation, can be found in other files in this study under those discipline titles in what has become, inevitably, an interdisciplinary world.
Ron Price
25/3/'09 to 29/12/'13.