Academic Catalog

SOC317 HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY III

Course Code: 2320317
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: Sociology
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The study of competing schools with divergent interests and perspectives; mathematical sociology, early functionalism, sociometry, philosophical sociology, sociology of knowledge, neopositivism, systematic sociology. Critical examination of a wide range of scholars and their works, Lundserg, Cooley, McIver, Gurvitch, Sorokin, Ogburn, Mannheim, Moreno. Particular emphasis is laid on early social anthropologists such as Malinowski, Radcliffe Brown and E. Pritchard.