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Academic Year 2000/2001
Contemporary Social Theory
SOC 213 FA
This course will critically examine writings of the classic sources of contemporary social theory: Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Luther King, Reinhold Niebuhr, Erving Goffman, C. Wright Mills, Alvin Gouldner, Claude
Levi-Strauss, Talcott Parsons.
MAJOR READINGS
Simone de Beauvoir, SECOND SEX C. Wright Mills, SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION Claude Levi-Strauss, TRISTES TROPIQUES Alvin Gouldner, COMING CRISIS IN WESTERN SOCIOLOGY and selections from other authors.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
A major research paper and several shorter essays. Class attendance and participation
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
SOC151
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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