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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.
Course Homepage: [[http://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/foundations-of-modern-social-theory]]
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Lecture 1 - Introduction
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Lecture 2 - Hobbes: Authority, Human Rights and Social Order
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Lecture 3 - Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property and the Right to Dissent
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Lecture 4 - Montesquieu: The Division of Powers
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Lecture 5 - Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty and General Will
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Lecture 6 - Rousseau on State of Nature and Education
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Lecture 7 - Mill: Utilitarianism and Liberty
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Lecture 8 - Smith: The Invisible Hand
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Lecture 9 - Marx's Theory of Alienation
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Lecture 10 - Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism
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Lecture 11 - Marx's Theory of Historical Materialism (cont.)
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Lecture 12 - Marx's Theory of History
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Lecture 13 - Marx's Theory of Class and Exploitation
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Lecture 14 - Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality
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Lecture 15 - Freud on Sexuality and Civilization
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Lecture 16 - Weber on Protestantism and Capitalism
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Lecture 17 - Conceptual Foundations of Weber's Theory of Domination
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Lecture 18 - Weber on Traditional Authority
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Lecture 19 - Weber on Charismatic Authority
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Lecture 20 - Weber on Legal-Rational Authority
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Lecture 21 - Weber's Theory of Class
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Lecture 22 - Durkheim and Types of Social Solidarity
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Lecture 23 - Durkheim's Theory of Anomie
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Lecture 24 - Durkheim on Suicide
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Lecture 25 - Durkheim and Social Facts
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