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| Course name | The History of Sociological Thought II |
| Course ID | 14.2-WP-SOC-HMS2 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Field of study | WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Sociology |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2024/2025 |
| Semester | 1 |
| ECTS credits to win | 6 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 15 | 1 | - | - | Credit with grade |
“The history of social thought” aim is to familiarize students with the classical social theories and classical social philosophy.
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Positivism - August Comte.
Evolutionism – Herbert Spencer.
Marx and Engels and the radical critique of capitalist patriarchy.
Sociologism – Emile Durkheim.
Psychologism and its social conceptions.
Social action through interpretive means – Max Weber.
Humanistic sociology – Florian Znaniecki.
Lecturing and Power Point presentation. Discussing the readings, working out issues in groups.Individual student work (e.g. reading and analysis) according to the teacher's instructions.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Written essay. Final grades: mark is based on the writtern essay and acrivities/participation in discussions durign the classes. The mark from the essay may be elevated for a half or one level. depending on the intesity of the activities.
Szacki Jerzy, History of Social Thought, Aldwych Press Ltd, 1979.
Swingewood Alan, A Schort History of Sciological Thought, Macmillan Education, 1984.
Craig Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, James Moody, Steven Plaff, Idermohan Virk (eds.), Classical Sociological Theory, Fourth Edition, 2022, Blackwell
1. Emory Stephen Bogardus, A History of Social Thought, University of Southern California Press,
2. Raymond Aron, Main Currents in Sociological Thought, Transaction Publishers, 2009.
(http://books.google.pl/books?id=-HVd1cS7e-gC&printsec=frontcover&hl=pl&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)
Modified by dr Magdalena Pokrzyńska (last modification: 22-04-2024 17:00)
