Sociology of Forgiveness

Level: Undergraduate

Division: The New School for Public Engagement

School: School of Undergraduate Studies

Department: Social Sciences

Course Number: NSOC 3850

Course Format: Lecture

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Sociology
• Social Sciences
• Law

Description:
Forgiveness is a subject receiving considerable attention worldwide in our time. It embodies problematic relations of history, memory, and justice and difficult distinctions, such as those between the criminal and the crime and between forgiving and forgetting. Through an ongoing multidisciplinary discussion of what forgiveness consists of, who can forgive, and under what circumstances forgiveness can occur, we treat forgiveness as a critical framework through which to view many complex problems in the contemporary world. The primary text is Considering Forgiveness, an anthology in which social theorists, artists, and critics discuss the status of forgiveness in contemporary discourse.