SOC 500Modern European Social Theory 525* and/or 526* Ideology and Social Change in Latin America
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1969–70 to 1974–75; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Discussion and reports on leading social thinkers. and the development of a systematic body of knowledge about social life. Special emphasis will be given to the emergence of sociological thought from the turn of the century to the period between the French Wars. Topics will include Durkheim and the French Sociological Tradition; Max Weber and the German Interpretative Sociology; Pareto and Machiavellian Social Theory; Marx and Historical Materialism; trends in contemporary existential social philosophy. Prerequisite: Fourth year Sociology major or permission of the instructor 3 hour seminar, Fall term A research seminar on the dynamics of social change as reflected in social thought and social movements in specific countries of Latin America. Students will be expected to present a research paper to the seminar; and a reading knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is a desideratum. The seminar will draw on the library and, when feasible, the faculty resources of the Ontario Cooperative Programme in Latin America and Caribbean Studies. Prerequisite: Open to fourth year Honours students in Sociology | Spanish, Sociology | Anthropology, Regional and Planning Studies, Latin American History, Sociology| Politics and other relevant programmes 3 hour seminar
As printed in the 1974–75 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1969–70 to 1974–75, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1974–75 1 calendar
Discussion and reports on leading social thinkers. and the development of a systematic body of knowledge about social life. Special emphasis will be given to the emergence of sociological thought from the turn of the century to the period between the French Wars. Topics will include Durkheim and the French Sociological Tradition; Max Weber and the German Interpretative Sociology; Pareto and Machiavellian Social Theory; Marx and Historical Materialism; trends in contemporary existential social philosophy. Prerequisite: Fourth year Sociology major or permission of the instructor 3 hour seminar, Fall term
A research seminar on the dynamics of social change as reflected in social thought and social movements in specific countries of Latin America. Students will be expected to present a research paper to the seminar; and a reading knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is a desideratum. The seminar will draw on the library and, when feasible, the faculty resources of the Ontario Cooperative Programme in Latin America and Caribbean Studies. Prerequisite: Open to fourth year Honours students in Sociology | Spanish, Sociology | Anthropology, Regional and Planning Studies, Latin American History, Sociology| Politics and other relevant programmes 3 hour seminar
Not in the 1972–73 to 1973–74 calendars.
1969–70 to 1971–72 3 calendars
Titled Modern European Social Theory.
Discussion and reports on leading social thinkers and the development of a systematic body of knowledge about social life. Special emphasis will be given to the emergence of sociological thought from the turn of the century to the period between the two World Wars. Topics will include: Durkheim and the French Sociological Tradition; Max Weber and German Interpretative Sociology; Pareto and Machiavellian Social Theory; Marx and Historical Materialism; trends in contemporary existential social philosophy. (Open to fourth year honours Sociology students.)