Overview
Lecturer
Mihai Pascaru Pag
Seminar tutor
Alin Tomuș
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Sociology
Field of study
Sociology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Entry requirements
None
Aims
Know the main contemporary sociological theories and the way they associate to the practical approaches and research.
Understand the main thesis and directions of the contemporary sociological theories.
Develop the capacity to approach the problems of social realities from different perspectives.
Course contents
Structural Functionalism; The Sociological Phenomenology; The symbolic Interactionalism; The Dramaturgical Model in Sociology; Ethno-Methodology and Cognitive Sociology; The Actionalism (Touraine); The Methodological Individualism; The Individualist Constructivism (Bourdieu).
Learning outcomes
Know the main concepts and thesis of the contemporarry sociological theory
Be able to choose and support the adequate theory for adressing a given social problem
Assessment
Written paper –– 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading
Modern Sociological Theory
George Ritzer, Jeffrey N. Stepnisky
Sage Publications, New York, 2017 · 7-60
Sociological Theory - A Contemporary View: How To Read, Criticize and Do Theory
Neil J. Smelser
Quid Pro, New Orleans, 2011 · 21-34
Sociology
Anthony Giddens
Polity Press, Cambridge, 2006 · 100-125