SOC 411 - Contemporary Social Theory

Credits: 4

Surveys prominent schools of 20th-century social thought. Links developments in sociological theorizing to broader intellectual trends of period. Perspectives surveyed include phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, functionalism, neo-Marxian theory, structuralism and poststructuralism, feminist theory, and rational-choice theory.

Prerequisite(s): SOC 285 or permission of instructor.