Description

Overview:

This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention is paid to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.

Subject:

Education

Level:

Community College / Lower Division

Material Type:

Lecture, Reading, Syllabus

Author:

Iv’n Szel’Šnyi

Provider:

Yale University

Provider Set:

Open Yale Courses

Date Added:

06/16/2011