SOCY 151: Foundations of Modern Social Theory

Course Structure

This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2009.

Texts

Durkheim, Émile. The Division of Labor . New York: The Free Press, 1984.

Durkheim, Émile. The Rules of Sociological Method . New York: The Free Press, 1966.

Durkheim, Émile. Suicide . New York: The Free Press, 1951.

Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Translated by James Strachey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961.

Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and Id . New York: W.W. Norton, 1960.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan . Edited by Crawford Brough Macpherson. Penguin Classics, 1985.

Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government . Edited by Peter Laslett. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Marx, Karl. Capital . Vol. 1. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1912.

Marx, Karl. Capital . Vol 3. Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Edited by Frederick Engels. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1967.

Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels. Collected Works . Vols. 1, 3, 5, 6. Translated by Richard Dixon et al. New York: International Publishers, 1975-1976.

Marx, Karl. Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations . Translated by Jack Cohen. New York: International Publishers, 1965.

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women . Edited by Susan Moller Okin. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1988.

Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism, On Liberty . London: Everyman, 1993.

Montesquieu, Charles de. The Spirit of the Laws . Translated and edited by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller, and Harold Samuel Stone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality . Edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson. Translated by Carol Diethe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile, or On Education . Introduction and translation by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books, 1979.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Of the Social Contract , in The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings . Edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations . Edited by Edwin Cannan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Weber, Max. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology . 2 vols. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . Translated by Talcott Parsons with a new introduction by Anthony Giddens. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1958.

Requirements

Exams There are three tests. A week before each test, students receive a list of not more than ten questions. At 8:00 p.m. on the day of the test, three out of these ten questions are emailed to students, who are then required to submit short-essay responses by 9:00 p.m. by email to their discussion section leaders. Each of the three responses is approximately 2 pages in length.

Essay Students are required to write one essay, approximately 6-8 pages long. Students receive recommended essay questions in the discussion groups by the end of the third week of the quarter.

Grading

Participation in discussion sections: 10% Tests: 20% each Essay: 30%