Order Description
NO Introduction
NO Conclusion
Essay Question to be answered
Is Marx still relevant in the 21st century? Discuss in relation to the question of
digital labour.
essay will need to address:
An understanding and discussion of at least one major theoretical framework in
social theory
Definition and description of the key concepts that underpin the social theory
Discussed
Analysis, evaluation and assessment of at least one complex contemporary social
issue from the standpoint of the social theory described
Elaboration of wider relations between the social theory selected and contemporary society
1. Understanding and discussion of at least one major theoretical framework in social theory
2. Definition and description of the key concepts that underpin the social theory discussed
3. Analysis, evaluation and assessment of at least one complex contemporary social issue from the standpoint of the social theory described
4. Elaboration of wider relations between the social theory selected and contemporary society
a) define and describe the key concepts that underpin social theory and social analysis
b) understand and discuss the major theoretical frameworks in social theory, including classical structuralist, interpretive and conflict theories
c) apply contemporary sociological debates concerning structure and agency, modernity, feminism, queer, postcolonial, and globalisation theories to current social issues
d) analyse, evaluate and assess complex issues
e) relate social theory to contemporary society
Unit learning outcomes
a) On completion of this unit, students will be able to:define and describe the key
concepts that underpin social theory and social analysis
b) understand and discuss the major theoretical frameworks in social theory,
including classical structuralist, interpretive and conflict theories
c) apply contemporary sociological debates concerning structure and agency,
modernity, feminism, queer, postcolonial, and globalisation theories to current
social issues
d) analyse, evaluate and assess complex social issues
e) relate social theory to contemporary society
Please use these readings
This is main book
Farganis, J. (2014). Readings in social theory: The classic tradition to Post-modernism (7th ed.).
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
These are extra readings
Mills, C. W. (1959). The promise. In The sociological imagination (pp. 3-13). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Analysing Society 1. Mills, C. W. (1959). The promise. In The sociological imagination (pp. 3-13). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Classical Social Theory 2. Bessant, J., & Watts, R. (2007). Sociology in an age of insecurity. In Sociology Australia (3rd ed., pp. 21 41). Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Foucault, M. (1984). What is Enlightenment? In P. Rabinow (Ed.), The Foucault Reader (pp. 32-50). New York, NY: Pantheon Books. Available at: https://foucault.info/documents/whatisenlightenment/foucault.whatisenlightenme nt.en.html
Section 3: Durkheim and Functionalism 4. Durkheim, É. (1938). What is a social fact? In The rules of sociological method (pp. 1 13). (S. A. Solovay, & J. H. Mueller, Trans.). New York, NY: The Free Press. (Original work published 1895)
Section 4: Marx and Western Marxism 5. Habibis, D., & Walter, M. (2009). Classical theories of inequality and their modern developments. In Social inequality in Australia (pp. 15-32). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
Section 5: Weber and Conflict Theory 6. Ritzer, G. (2004). McDonaldization and its precursors: From the iron cage to the fast food factory. In The McDonaldization of society (Rev. ed., pp. 24-42). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Section 6: Simmel and Symbolic Interactionism 7. Pampel, C. (2007). Uniting self and society: George Herbert Mead and symbolic interaction. In Sociological lives and ideas: An introduction to the classical theorists (2nd ed., pp. 187-200). New York, NY: Worth.
Section 7: Feminist Social Theory 8. Walby, S. (1990). Introduction. In Theorizing patriarchy (pp. 1-24). Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.
9. Connell, R. W. (1995). The social organization of masculinity. In Masculinities (pp. 71-86). Cambridge, England: Polity Press.
10. Connell, R. W. (2014). The sociology of gender in Southern perspective. Retrieved from https://www.raewynconnell.net/2014/06/open-access-papers.html
