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)
This course is recommended for students, who already took the course Introduction to Sociology. It is open to
Erasmus students and strongly recommended to SHV AJ (Liberal Arts and Humanities programme) students, since it partially works with the literature for the Comprehensive Exam in Social Sciences.