GEC 1406-0

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What is the relationship between individual and society? What is the nature of social order? Do we simply follow existing structural arrangements, or we live upon meanings that we generate in our everyday life? Since the 19th century, sociologists have been developing perspectives and theories to answer the above questions. The course will introduce major sociologists and their social theory throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. By reading the original texts of Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Erving Goffman, and Michel Foucault, students will learn how the theorists understand the relationship between self and society, social organization, the formation of self, and social change. Why read original text? Students might find reading the original text challenging. However, it is the only way to learn what have been said by the leading theorists without simplification because the original text is never the same as the secondary text. To help students t

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