Syllabus
COURSE PLAN INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to sociological theory SOCIOLOGICAL CLASSICS
2. Emil Durkheim
3. Max Weber
4. Georg Simmel - a guest lecture by prof. B. Thériault
5. Karl Marx MODERN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
6. Sociology & ecology ( university climate strike lecture)
7. Symbolic interactionism
8. Structural functionalism
9. Social constructionism & agency-structure integration: Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu
10. Postmodernism and theories of (late)modernity, feminist theory
11. Good imagination and bad writing - how to work with sociologial theory: C.S. Mills & S. Andreski reading week: 20th-24th November (no in-class lecture)
Annotation
The course is an introduction to the sociological theory and offers a closer analysis of the main sociological concepts (both classic and contemporary). In a form of a lecture, the course offers a comprehensive overview of the most influential theories and theoreticians. Individual lectures are devoted to particular issues in sociological theory.
The course is recommended for the students, who already graduated from the course Introduction to Sociology.
