Description
This course is a critical examination and comparison of the thoughts of classic Western sociopolitical theorists, philosophers, activists, and intellectuals such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Du Bois, Ward, and Woolf. Students will critically examine various sociological theories such as conflict, structural-functionalism, and symbolic interactionism. This course will distinguish between various theorists in order to help students develop a critical perspective on each from an intense study of their key primary texts. Analysis and synthesis of this literature will grow from seminar-style class discussions from a variety of contemporary sociological perspectives including feminist post-structuralism, critical race theory, post-modernism, dramaturgical analysis, and post-colonial race theory. By course end, students will have a beginning mastery of theorists and theoretical perspectives foundational to their professional continuation in the fi