Course Description

SY402 Contemporary Issues in Social Theory 0.5

An examination of the key debates in social theory such as structuralist versus instrumentalist theories of the state, the problem of linkage between macro and micro level theory perspectives, the present status of causal versus interpretive methodologies, and current issues in functional versus coercion theory.†

Prerequisite: SY387 or SY388.

Official electronic version updated at 4:25 p.m. December 18, 2003

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