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Sociology: Main questions and building blocks (SPS-REHAR-SOC-25)

SPS-REHAR-SOC-25


Department SPS
Course category SPS Field course
Course type Seminar
Academic year 2025-2026
Term 1ST TERM
Credits 20 (EUI SPS Department)
Professors
Contact Rzemieniecka, Monika
  Course materials
Sessions

30/09/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

07/10/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

14/10/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

21/10/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

28/10/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

04/11/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

11/11/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

18/11/2025 9:00-11:00 @ Seminar Room 4, Badia Fiesolana

25/11/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana

02/12/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana
Enrolment info Contact [email protected] for enrolment details.

Purpose

This course addresses key questions, theoretical approaches and readings in sociology as a core social science discipline. Sociology is a very disparate discipline but this course approaches it by focusing on key theoretical approaches and questions that cut through much of good sociological research. The focus of the course is on asking theoretical questions, developing theoretical arguments, and thinking sociologically.
The course consists of a ten week seminar and – for those taking it as their compulsory field seminar – a final exam.

The seminar and the readings are structured under five themes: Core principles and sociological theory building, Social structure and agency, Social integration and social cohesion, Differentiation and inequality, and Social change and continuity.

By the end of the course, the participants are expected to have developed an understanding of sociological thinking and some key sociological fields and central works therein.

 

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