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SOCY 151

Foundations of Modern Social Theory

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2009

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Hobbes: Authority, Human Rights and Social Order
  • Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent
  • Montesquieu: The Division of Powers
  • Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty and General Will
  • Rousseau on State of Nature and Education
  • Mill: Utilitarianism and Liberty
  • Smith: The Invisible Hand
  • Marx's Theory of Alienation
  • Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism
  • Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (cont.)
  • Marx's Theory of History
  • Marx's Theory of Class and Exploitation
  • Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality
  • Freud on Sexuality and Civilization
  • Weber on Protestantism and Capitalism
  • Conceptual Foundations of Weber's Theory of Domination
  • Weber on Traditional Authority
  • Weber on Charismatic Authority
  • Weber on Legal-Rational Authority
  • Weber's Theory of Class
  • Durkheim and Types of Social Solidarity
  • Durkheim's Theory of Anomie
  • Durkheim on Suicide
  • Durkheim and Social Facts

Readings

  • Durkheim, Émile. The Division of Labor . New York: The Free Press, 1984.
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  • Durkheim, Émile. The Rules of Sociological Method . New York: The Free Press, 1966.
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  • Durkheim, Émile. Suicide . New York: The Free Press, 1951.
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  • Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Translated by James Strachey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961.
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  • Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and Id . New York: W.W. Norton, 1960.
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  • Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan . Edited by Crawford Brough Macpherson. Penguin Classics, 1985.
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  • Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government . Edited by Peter Laslett. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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  • Marx, Karl. Capital . Vol. 1. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1912.
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  • Marx, Karl. Capital . Vol 3. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1967.
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  • Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. Collected Works . Vols. 1, 3, 5, 6. Translated by Richard Dixon et al. New York: International Publishers, 1975-1976.
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  • Marx, Karl. Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations . Translated by Jack Cohen. New York: International Publishers, 1965.
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  • Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women . Edited by Susan Moller Okin. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1988.
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  • Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism, On Liberty . London: Everyman, 1993.
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  • Montesquieu, Charles de. The Spirit of the Laws . Translated and edited by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller, and Harold Samuel Stone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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  • Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality . Edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson. Translated by Carol Diethe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile, or On Education . Introduction and translation by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
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  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Of the Social Contract , in The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings . Edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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  • Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations . Edited by Edwin Cannan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976.
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  • Weber, Max. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology . 2 vols. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
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  • Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . Translated by Talcott Parsons with a new introduction by Anthony Giddens. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1958.
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