Subsections
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- Historical roots of social theory: Theorizing social relations;
relations between individual biographies and social structures; the
tradition of social theory with its roots in 19th century political
economy; religion, ritual and emergence of social order.
- Classical social theory and modernity: Durkheim's writings on the
conscience collective and the moral order, division of labor and
suicide; Marx's writings on historical materialism, human nature,
labor, class conflict and alienation, Frankfurt school (Habermas),
relationship between state and society, understanding social cohesion,
collective action, social stratification; Weber on the protestant
ethic and the spirit of capitalism, bureaucracy, rationalization and
the roots of social domination;
- Modernity and Late modernity: Conflict Theory: (Weber, Dahrendorf, &
Collins), Dependency theory, symbolic interactionism (Meal, Blumer,
Goffman), Rational choice theory, Exchange network theory, Phenomelogy
and the social world(Schutz), structures of the life world,
ethnomethodology, Social construction of reality (Berger and Luckman),
social construction of inequality (Bourdieu), structure of scientific
revolutions(Kuhn).
- Postmodernity, poststructuralism and beyond: Feminist critique of
social theory, standpoint theory, The production of modern society and
the body discourse (Focault) , Neomarxists and critique of marxism,
network society(Castells), world-systems theory (Wallerstein), the
problem of intersubjectivity, relationship between technology, culture
and politics, understanding scales from the body, family, community,
national to global; power and resistance, global terror and the modern
nation-state.
- A. Giddens, Social Theory and Modern Sociology, Stanford
University Press (1987).
- N. Crossly, Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory, Sage
(2005).
- M. Dhillon, Introduction to Sociological theory, Wiley
Blackwell (2010).
- D. Harvey, Limits to Capital, Verso (2006).
- K. Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - Vol. I: The
Process of Capitalist Production, Cosimo (2007).
- H. Arendt, The Human Condition,University of Chicago Press,
Second edition (1998).
- M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison,
Translated from 1979 version by A. M. Sheridan, Random House, New York
2nd edition (1995).
- Grewal and Kaplan, An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in
a Transnational World, McGraw-Hill (2001).
- J. Farganis, Readings In Social Theory: The classic tradition to
postmodernism, McGraw-Hill (2003).
