Sylabus
* Structure of Lessons: 1. Course introduction (Jiri Subrt - The Perspective of Historical Sociology, pp.7-20) 2. Comte + Spencer (Comte: The Positive Philosophy of August Comte pp. 27-41; Sztompka 101-104) 3. Marx (Marx - A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Preface) 4. Weber (protestant ethics chapter 1) 5. Durkheim (division of labor in society; mechanical/organic solidarity; Division of Labor – “the problem”) 6. Elias (Civilizing process, preface) 7. Systemic: Parsons (+Luhmann) (Parsons: societies: comparative studies) 8. Conflict theory + Huntington 9. Arendt, Popper, Aron 10. Nationalism (Gellner, Huntington, Hroch) 11. American historical sociology (Moore, Tilly, Skocpol, Mann, Wallerstein) 12. Summary
Additional recommended reading:
Jiri Subrt – The perspective of historical sociology
Piotr Sztompka – The sociology of social change
Dennis Smith – The rise of historical sociology
Anotace
The seminar focuses on reading and discussing important historical sociological texts.