Paul McLean
Department of Sociology
Rutgers University
Lucy Stone Hall, A336
Phone: 732-445-3705
Email: pmclean@rci.rutgers.edu
Welcome to my somewhat primitive website. Here you can find a copy of
my vita, plus a lot of
information pertaining to my teaching at
Current courses (Fall 2007):
1) Soc 313:01-02 – Development of Sociological Theory
Electronic reserve
reading materials:
--Thomas
Hobbes reading, 09/10
--Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations reading, 09/12
--Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments reading, 09/17
--Thomas Schelling reading,
09/17
--Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor
in Society
-- first chunk, 10/15 --second chunk, 10/17
--Georg Simmel, “The
Triad” reading, 10/31
--Georg Simmel, “Fashion,”
11/5
--Ronald Breiger, “The
Duality of Persons and Groups,” 11/5
--Eviatar Zerubavel, “Generally
Speaking,” 11/5
--Max Weber, “Politics as a
Vocation,” 11/26
--Charles Cooley reading, 11/28
--R. W. Connell reading, 10/12
2)
Soc 290:01 – Political
Sociology
Electronic
reserve reading materials:
--John
Gaventa reading, 09/10
--Thomas Hobbes reading,
09/13
--Michel Foucault reading,
09/17
--Richard Emerson reading, 09/20
--Georg Simmel reading,
09/20
--Karl Marx 18th
Brumaire reading, 09/24
--Antonio Gramsci reading, 09/24
--chunk 1 --chunk 2
--Max Weber, Economy and Society
--chunk 1 (domination),
09/27 --chunk 2 (ideal types), 10/1
--Robert Putnam reading,
11/5
--Jason Kaufman reading,
11/5
--Nina Eliasoph reading,
11/8
--Howard Woolston reading,
11/12
--Dinko Tomasic reading, 11/12
--Jeffrey Goldfarb reading,
11/12
--Adam Przeworski reading, 11/26
--chunk 1 --chunk 2
--Rogers Brubaker readings, 11/29
--chunk 1 (citizenship) --chunk 2 (nationalism)
--Roger Petersen reading, 12/3
--chunk 1 --chunk 2
--Charles Tilly reading,
12/6
--Donald Black reading,
12/6
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Various Past Syllabi:
Graduate courses:
Soc 633 – Social Network Analysis
Soc 641:04 - Political Sociology
Soc 515 - Classical Sociological Theory
Soc 512 - Economic Sociology
Soc 573 - Comparative Social Structures
Undergraduate courses:
Soc 422:03 - Sociology of Culture (senior seminar)
Soc 375 - Economic Sociology
Soc 290 - Political Sociology
Soc 198 – Honor and Discipline (Honors Program seminar)
Soc 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Lecture outlines:
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Some of my ongoing research projects:
A. Renaissance
---Networks and Self-Presentation
---talk
---Business Transactions and Market Structure
---Chance in
Renaissance
I'm working on an essay exploring the manifold
encounters Florentines had with the notion of chance in various spheres of
life.
A hypertext draft of that work in progress is available here.
B. 18th Century
---Clientelism, Political Culture, Elite Structure, and Reform
C. Adam Smith