Sociological Theory A Skeleton Key

This recording focuses on "The Underlife of a Public Institution: A Study of Ways of Making Out in a Mental Hospital." [© Dan Krier]

This recording focuses upon "The Moral Career of the Mental Patient" and includes comparisons to Goffman's analysis of "Fun in ...

Marcel Mauss The Gift

This lecture situates Goffman's Asylums as a study of high modern complex organizations of the mid 20th century. The focus is ...

The focus of this recording is on "Antisemitism." It begins with some awkward images from Eduard Fuch's book on ideological ...

Erving Goffman's Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963) is frequently the first book that students read ...

This video describes how Lacan's writings provide a

Dan Krier]

Overview lecture of the three core features of Marx's politics: the crisis tendencies of capital and revolution, class identity as the ...

Dan Krier]

This video describes how Marx's writings provide a

This supplemental, summary video on Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism clarifies her concept of authority, presents

Introduces Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Overview of the main argument and ...