SOCI 347: Contemporary Social Theory for the 21st Century: The Age of Indeterminacy Report a Broken Link

Secondary Textbook


Unit 1: Theory and Modernity


Please read Introduction: Interdisciplinary Studies and the Fortunes of Sociology

Unit 2: History


Šarić, M. (2017). Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha’s “Sociological theory beyond the canon.” Revija za Sociologiju, 52(2), 239–241. 
Connell, R. (1997). Why is classical theory classical? American Journal of Sociology. 102(6), 1511–1557.
Curato, N. (2013). A sociological reading of classical sociological theory. Philippine Sociological Review, 61(2), 265–287.

Unit 3: Critical Theory


Unit 4: Postmodernism


Unit 5: Post-Structuralism


Unit 6: Postcolonialism


Please read pages 48–69 only.

Unit 8: Neo-Marxism and Post-Marxism


Unit 9: Late Modernity


Unit 10: Feminist Theory, Standpoint Theory, and Queer Theory


Epilogue