This course provides a foundation in classical sociological theory by exploring the work of major social thinkers of the 19th and early 20th century. Highly influential scholars, such as August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, will be discussed during the semester. It is important for any graduate student in any discipline to have a solid understanding of the conceptual and historical foundations of that discipline. That is no truer for any discipline than sociology, where the history of our endeavor is predicated on the basis of theoretical responses to what appears on its face to be a simple question: namely, what exactly is the social? The canonical thinkers of the discipline all worked to develop clear conceptions of what actually counted as the subject matter of sociological study (as opposed to political, economic, cultural, psychological, and biological, among other things), and understanding those theoretical conceptions of what makes what we do different from what is done on other floors in social sciences courses is crucial to learning to do good sociological research.
Course Material
- Total Lessons 16
- Department Sociology and Criminology
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Teacher
Shahzad Khaver Mushtaq
