Course code

RAS6111.YK

old course code

RAS6111

Course title in Estonian

Kaasaegsed ühiskonnateooriad I

Course title in English

Contemporary Social Theory I

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To introduce the most influential contemporary (last 50 years) social theories and their basic concepts. To shape critical attitudes in students towards theoretical discourses and their possible application.

Brief description of the course

The course covers a selection of the following theories:
Neo-Functualism. Rational Choice Theory. Constructionism. Ethnomethodology
Interactionism – dramaturgical theory. Neo-Pragmatism. Post-Structuralism. Post-Modernism. Contemporary Critical Theory. Feminist Theory. Structuration Theory. Cultural research
The course consists of mainly lectures, in the end of the course additionally independent reading and seminars. Students have to prepare a short presentation for presenting in seminar and pass a written examination.

Teacher

Lektor Krista Hinno

Study programmes containing that course

Sociology (RASLB/11.YK)
History (AIAJB/11.HT)
Sociology (RASLB/10.YK)
History (AIAJB/10.HT)
History (AIAJB/09.HT)
Sociology (RASLB/09.YK)
Sociology (RASLB/08.YK)
History (AIAJB/08.HT)
Sociology (RASLB/07.YK)
History (AIAJB/07.HT)
History (AIAJB/06.HT)
Sociology (RASLB/06.YK)
History (AIAJB/05.HT)
History (AIAJB/04.HT)
History (AIAJB/00.HT)