SOCI 3302 Contemporary Social Theory
The course is designed to develop an appreciation of and an understanding of the development of contemporary sociological theories. This course will focus of functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, macrosociological perspectives, feminism, and post-modernism. The course will end by examining the various theoretical challenges to modernity and the Enlightenment from both a pre-modern perspective as well as from a post-modern perspective.