GSOC 5101 -

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The New School

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Foundations of Sociology I: Social Theory [Core/ Methods, E] Fall 2008. Three credits. Andrew Arato This graduate seminar is a broad introduction to the central ideas and key works of Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, émile Durkheim, and Max Weber, whose concepts and questions continue to animate theoretical and empirical research in sociology. We will focus primarily on what unites-and secondarily on what divides-these theorists and theircontributions to the canon of sociological knowledge: the confrontation with the dualism of subject and object, criticism of utilitarian thought and normative political philosophy, the epistemological break with primary experience, theories of power and solidarity, and the sociological discourse of modernity.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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