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  • 2024/2025
  • By Murray Goulden
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Classical Social Theory: General Texts

Week 1 - Introduction: Colonialism & Social Theory

Week 2 - Ibn Khaldun & Comte: Social theory's pre-history

Week 3 - Marx: Turning theory upside down

Week 4 - Marx: class & revolution

Week 5 - Durkheim: the Problem of Individualism

Week 6 - Reading Week

Week 7 - Durkheim: anomie & its solutions

Week 8 - Weber: Capitalism & Rationality

Week 9 - Weber: the threat of the bureaucracy

Week 10 - W.E.B Du Bois: the 'Colour Line'

Week 11 - Conclusion: Sociology's Origin Story

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