Objectives

After this class you will be able to:

• Compare and contrast materialist, symbolic and exchange theories of key social constructs with those of post-structuralism and post-modernism;
• Evaluate how these different theoretical perspectives view the role of community in contemporary society;
• Assess how key concepts of post-structuralism and post-modernism can be incorporated into contemporary social practice;
• Examine, compare, and contrast research findings that challenge the post-modern perspective

Allan

Pp. 519-568 1st Ed., pp. 469-511 2nd Ed.

Blackshaw,

Pp. 130-144 (Communitarianism and Imaginary Communities)

Remember to select an article from next week's reading list.

Other Readings Read one from each list. Read quickly, not for detail.

List 1

Beckett, K. & Herbert, S. (2008) Dealing with disorder: Social control in the post-industrial city. Theoretical Criminology 12(1), 5-30.

Cahill, C. (2007) The personal is political: Developing new subjectivities through participatory action research. Gender, Place & Culture 14(3), 267-292.

Carmona, M. (2010) Contemporary public space: Critique and classification, Part one, Critique. Journal of Urban Design 15(1), 123-148.

Carter, T.F. (2008) Of spectacular phantasmal desire: Tourism and the Cuban state's complicity in the commodification of its citizens. Leisure Studies 27(3), 241-257.

Engeln-Maddox, R., Miller, S. & Doyle, D. (2011) Tests of objectification theory in gay, lesbian and heterosexual community samples: Mixed evidence for proposed pathways. Sex Roles 65(7-8), 518-532.

Gilbert, J. (2008) Against the commodification of everything. Cultural Studies 22(5), 551-566.

Grieve, R. & Helmick, A. (2008) The influence of men's self-objectification on the drive for muscularity: Self-esteem, body satisfaction and muscle dysmorphia. International Journal of Men's Health 7(3), 288-298.

Kohn, M. (2010) Toronto's Distillery District: Consumption and nostalgia in a post-industrial landscape. Globalizations 7(3), 359-369.

McGuirk, P. & Dowling, R. (2009) Master-planned residential developments: Beyond iconic spaces of neoliberalism? Asia Pacific Viewpoint 50(2), 120-234.

Mercurio, A. & Rima, B. (2011) Watching my weight: Self-weighing, body surveillance and body dissatisfaction. Sex Roles 65(1), 47-55.

Moradi, B. & Huang, Y. (2008) Objectification theory and psychology of women: A decade of advances and future directions.

Parent, M.C. & Moradi, B. (2010) His biceps become him: A test of objectification theory's application to drive for masculinity and propensity for steroid use in college men. Journal of Counseling Psychology 58(2), 246-256.

Rosseau, M. (2009) Re-imaging the city centre for the middle classes: Regeneration, gentrification and symbolic policies in "loser cities." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(3), 770-788.

Shepler, D., Lupfer-Johnson, G., Chaudoir, S. & Boeckmann, R. (2011) That community becomes you? An examination of community differences in self-objectification and related variables. Journal of General Psychology, 138(3), 185-200.

Wendt, S. & Seymour, S. (2010) Applying post-structuralist ideas to empowerment: Implications for social work education. Social Work Education 29(6), 670-682.

Youdell, D. (2010) Queer outings: Uncomfortable stories about the subjects of post-structural school ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 23(1), 87-100.

List 2

Andreou, C. (2010) A shallow route to environmentally friendly happiness: Why evidence that we are shallow materialists need not be bad news for the environment(alist). Ethics, Place & Environment, 13(1), 1-10.

Bartram, D. (2010) International migration, open borders debates, and happiness. International Studies Review 12(3), 339-361.

Buchanan, K.E. & Bardi, A. (2010) Acts of kindness and acts of novelty affect life satisfaction. Journal of Social Psychology 150(3), 235-237.

Dehley, J. (2010) From materialist to post-materialist happiness? National affluence and determinants of life satisfaction in cross-national perspective. Social Indicators Resaerch 97(1), 65-84.

DePrycker, V. (2010) Happiness on the political agenda? PROS and CONS. Journal of Happiness Studies, 11(5), 585-603.

Grant, N., Wardle, J. & Steptoe, A. (2009) the relationship between life satisfaction and health behavior: A cross-cultural analysis of young adults. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 16(3), 259-268.

Ott, J.C. (2010) Good governance and happiness in nations: Technical quality precedes democracy and quality beats size. Journal of Happiness Studies, 11(3), 353-368.

Rosenberg, L.R. (2010) Transforming leadership: Reflexive practice and the enhancement of happiness. Reflective Practice 11(1), 9-18.

Sheldon, K.M., Abad, N., Ferguson, Y., Gunz, A. et al. (2010) Persistent pursuit of need-satisfying goals leads to increased happiness: A 6-month experimental longitudinal study. Motivation & Emotion 34(1), 39-48.

Veenhoven, R. (2010) Life is getting better: Societal evolution and fit with human nature. Social Indicators Research 97(1), 105-122.

Veenhoven, R. (2010) Greater happiness for a greater number? Is that possible and desirable? Journal of Happiness Studies 11(5), 605-629.

Additional Materials

Bird, C.M. (2002). Phenomenological realities or "Quinntown," life in a cyber community. Journal of American & Comparative Cultures 25(1-2), 32-37.

Cherry, E. (2006). Veganism as a cultural movement: A relational approach. Social Movement Studies, 5(2), 155-170.

Chidester, P., Campbell, S., & Bell, J. (2006). "Black is Blak": Bamboozled and the crisis of a postmodern racial identity. The Howard Journal of Communications, 17-287-306.

Colombo, M. & Senatore, A. (2005). The discursive construction of community identity. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 15, 48-26.

Frost, L. & Hoggett, P. (2008). Human agency and social suffering. Critical Social Policy, 28(4), 438-460.

Hollander, E.M. (2001). Cyber community in the valley of the shadow of death. Journal of Loss & Trauma 6, 135-146.

Ingram, D. (2001). Can groups have rights? What postmodern theory tells us about participatory democracy in the era of identity politics. Democracy & Nature 7(1), 135-158.

Lahiri-Dutt, K. (2004). "I plan, you participate": A southern view of community participation in urban Australia. Community Development Journal 39(1), 13-27.

Levine, C. (2005). What happened to agency? Some observations concerning the postmodern perspective on identity. Identity, 5(2), 175-185.

Pahl, R. (2005). Are all communities communities in the mind? The Sociological Review, 53(4), 621-640.

Umbreit, M.S., Coates, R.B. & Vos, B. (2004). Restorative justice versus community justice: Clarifying a muddle or generating confusion? Contemporary Justice Review 7(1), 81-89.

Ward, K.J. (1999). Cyber-ethnography and the emergence of the virtually new community. Journal of Information Technology 14, 95-105.

Willis, L.A., Coombs, D.W., Cockerham, W.C. 7 Frison, S.L. (2002). Ready to die: A postmodern interpretation of the increase of African-American adolescent male suicide. Social Science & medicine, 55, 907-920.

Wyatt, A. (2005). Building the temples of postmodern India: Economic constructions of national identity. Contemporary South Asia 14(4), 465-480.

Yair, G. (2008). Vive la (sexual) revolution: The political roots of Bourdieu's analysis of gender. Sociological Review 56(3), 388-407.

Zukin, S. (2007). Reading The Urban Villages as a cultural document: Ethnicity, modernity, and capital. City & Community 6(1), 39-48.