Introduction to Social Studies

Harvard FAS

This course offers an introduction to the foundations of modern social theory from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Our focus will be on the development of modern moral, political, and economic ideas, with special emphasis on empire, race, inequality, and the environment. Authors we will examine include, among others, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Ottobah Cugoano, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frederick Douglass, Charles Darwin, and Karl…