Department of Politics                                                                  Prof. Bertell Ollman

SPRING 2003                                                                                       Office Hours:

G53.2106                                                                                           M 10:00 – 10:45

                                                                                                            M 5:00  – 6:00

                                                                                                            W 11:00 – 12:00

 

METHODS OF POLITCAL AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS

S  Y  L  L  A  B  U  S

 

Required:

 

            Elements of Social Science Thinking, by K. Hoover

 

            Reader in Marxist Philosophy, by S. Selsam & H. Martel, eds.

 

            Introduction Critique of Political Economy, by Karl Marx

 

            Alienation, by B. Ollman

 

            Danse of the Dialectic, by B. Ollman

 

            Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists, ed. by B. Ollman

 

            Four Essays in Philosophy, by Mao Tse Tung

 

            History and Class Consciousness, by G. Lukacs

 

            Search for a Method, by J.-P. Sartre

 

            How to Read Karl Marx, by E. Fischer

 

Recommended:

I.

 

            Sociology:  Traditional and Radical Perspectives, by H. Sherman & J.L. Wood

 

            Marx:  Introduction, by W.A. Suchting

 

            Liberating Theory, by M. Albert…., eds.

 

            Reason and Revolution, by H. Marcuse

 

            Social Analysis: A Marxist Critique and Alternative, by V.K. Allen

 

            Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. II, by K. Popper

 

            Reinventing Marxism, by H. Sherman

 

The Place of Marxism in History, by E. Mandel

 

Dialectic of the Concrete, by K. Kosik

 

Logic of Marxism, by G. Novack

 

The Violence of Abstraction, by D. Sayer

 

Marxism and Politics, by R. Milband

 

Dialectical Materialism: Its Laws, Categories, Practices, by I. Gallobin

 

U.S. Constitution: 200 Years of…Criticism, by B. Ollman & J. Birnbaum, eds.

 

            Left Academy, Vol. I by B. Ollman & E. Vernoff, eds.

 

            Social and Sexual Revolution, by B. Ollman

 

            When Marxists Do Research, by P. Vaillancourt

 

            Marxist Inquires, by M. Buraway & T. Skocpol, eds.

 

            Dialectical Logic for the Political Sciences, by H. Alker, ed.

 

II.

 

            The Tools of Social Science, by J. Madge

 

            The Conduct of Inquiry, by A. Kaplan

 

            Scope and Methods of Political Science, by A.C. Issak

 

            Contemporary Political Thought, by J.A. Gould and V.V. Thursky, eds.

 

            Demystifying Social Statistics, by J. Divine, I. Miles and J. Evans, eds.

 

            Coal Industry Research Guide, by L. Batt

 

            In the Field: Reading on the Field Research Experience,

by C.D. Smith and W. Kornblum, eds.

 

 

*            Photocopies of a variety of articles will be provided during the course.