SOCY 49.16 Community: Analysis & Action
This course will examine the idea of a safe, inclusive community and how it might be realized on a college campus. We will examine the tremendous changes that a society experiences as it moves from a social order based mainly on face-to-face interactions and obligations to one based on anonymous market forces, bureaucratic state power and virtual relationships. And we will look at how communities have endured despite these changes. We will look at the advantages and disadvantages of communities today, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of our longing for community. We will look at the practices that undermine community and the practices that support community. Finally, we will engage in action-oriented research projects concerned with community at Dartmouth.