HSL571
| HSL571 | |
|---|---|
| Contemporary Social Theory | |
| Credits | 3 |
| Structure | 3-0-0 |
| Pre-requisites | |
| Overlaps | |
HSL571 : Contemporary Social Theory
[edit]The course will familiarize students with contemporary sociological theorists and to trace the interlinkages with narrative theory and political thought. The course builds on and is conducted in dialogue with the classical theorists such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Habermas, Mauss etc, and marks a departure from a strict separation between “sociological” and “anthropological” theory, to focus instead on how they are both central to an understanding of the contemporary. Some key concepts that will be covered in this course include critical understandings of culture, state, governance, capital, kinship, gender and forms of relatedness, everyday life.