Individualization and Intimacy

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Individualization and Intimacy

• Instructor
• Chris Swader
• Assistant Professor of Sociology
• cswader_at_hse.ru

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Key Aims

• Students understand social theories dealing with
  individualization, intimacy, and face-to-face
  communication
• Students can operationalize research questions
  related to intimacy and individualization
• Students can approach scientific questions on
  intimacy from interdisciplinary and normatively
  diverse perspectives

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Key Themes

1. The origins of sociality
2. First modernization urbanization,
   industrialization, and economic development
3. First modernization technological development
   and rationalization
4. Second modernization reflexivity and risk
5. The fate of community
6. Intimacy and power
7. Intimacy and social control

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Assessment

1. Mandatory attendance Those who miss classes
   without medical excuse will fail.
2. Participation in Discussion 20. Each day of
   participation will be graded for relevance
   (following the train of discussion) and quality
   (knowledge of readings)
3. Critical Review Essay 20. Students will
   critique one of the in-class readings. This will
   be critiqued by the instructor, and students will
   adapt it.
4. Presentation 20. Presentation of in-class
   reading and integration with external readings.
5. Fieldwork and report 20. Students will observe
   and report on intimacy in a social setting.
6. Research proposal 20. Design, but not carry
   out, a research project related to the course.

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