SOCIOLOGY 401

CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

• Prerequisites: SOC 400 or equivalent

• 3-5:20 TU - 336 Lincoln

• Instructor:   Gille     Phone: 333-1316

• Office: 319 Lincoln

• Call Number: 09081

• Credit Hours: 3 hours or I unit

This course covers major social theories of the twentieth century with a thematic focus on subjectivity, power, and culture.  Theorists read and discussed include: Dorothy Smith, Joan Scott, Judith Butler, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adomo, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, C. Wright Mills, Mary Douglas, F. Saussure, C. Levi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, Althusser, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Edward Said.  The course requirements include weekly written comments, and two papers.