General Sociology

2022/2023

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

12

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Sociology

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructors

Safonova, Maria

Sokolova, Nadezhda

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Genaral sociology is introductory course. It is organized as discussion of important social issues (inequality, poverty, migration, urban space, religion etc.) with theoretical lenses provided by social theory. The course is divided into four big blocks: (1) social inequality, (2) social institutions, (3) social processes and (4) theoretical perspectives. The logic of the course and its structure are defined by the variety of answers for the questions about the conditions of formation, maintaining and reconfiguration/ destruction of the samples of social organization, and about the possible ways to analyze these processes suggested by sociology. We start from the very basic elements of explanation of social action and then proceed to understanding the nature of causal explanations in social science.