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)