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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science

166-244/344 The Development of Social and Political Theory

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Anthony Elliott

Prerequisite/s:

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Contact:

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.

Content:

An introduction to core perspectives and debates in contemporary social and political theory, from the 1920's to the present. Consideration will be given to the changing relations between self and society, selfhood and culture, sexuality and gender; the trajectory and development of modernity; and the methodological transformations affecting the social sciences today. Of the major traditions of social theory considered, the following are central: the Frankfurt school, structuralism and post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism and postmodernism.

Assessment:

Essay work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • A Elliott, Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: The Polity Reader in Social Theory
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