Sociology

SOCY 200A Social Theory 1

The first in a three-quarter theory sequence that surveys major schools of modern social and political thought, including political economy, structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, global Marxisms, post-colonial theory, critical race theory, and queer and feminist theory. Each quarter covers three thematic modules from the following: the history of sociology and the social sciences; the Enlightenment and the social turn; modernity and its others; political economy; culture and cultural politics; identity, subjectivity, consciousness; the social production of difference; the human and its others; space, place, and power.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sociology graduate students or by permission of the instructor.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

Instructor

Deborah Gould