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Foundations of Modern Social Theory

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. (from oyc.yale.edu )

Instructor

Professor Ivan Szelenyi,
Political science
2011

Record ID

reca0Pc3t0mgjooop

Lecture 01 - Introduction