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London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Modules
53
Sociological Theory
Prerequisite
- 10 Introduction to sociology
The emergence of
sociological theory in the philosophy of the Enlightenment and its development
in the classical theorists: the sociological positivism of Comte, the
historical materialism of Marx, sociological holism and functionalism
of Durkheim and Weber’s historical and comparative sociology and
theory of social action. The influence of both the substantive theories
of these classical theorists about industrialism, capitalism, social
order and rationalisation, and of the conceptual issues they raised
about the nature of social science on later sociological theory up to
the present day. Modern functionalism, social action theory, symbolic
interactionism, ethnomethodology, structuralism, neo-Marxism and post-modernism
in the work of Parsons, Merton, Mead, Garfinkel, Habermas, Giddens,
Bourdieu and Althusser.
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