408660 VO Cultural Theory: Culture and Society: The Emergence of Modernity from the Perspective of a Theory of Long-Term Social Change
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VO Cultural Theory: Culture and Society: The Emergence of Modernity from the Perspective of a Theory of Long-Term Social Change
VO 2
5
Block
annually
German
Knowledge of diverse theories of culture in the social sciences and understanding of the meaning and relevance of the concept of culture for sociology and social research
The lecture will offer an overview of the diversity of the concepts of culture, that are central to the social sciences, and the consequences of related theoretical choices for understanding the social.
Lecture, assessment is based on a single examination at the end of the course.
Course examination according to § 7, statute section on "study-law regulations"
Dux, Günter (1992): Die Spur der Macht im Verhältnis der Geschlechter. Über den Ursprung der Ungleichheit zwischen Frau und Mann. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp
Dux, Günter (2009): Von allem Anfang an: Macht, nicht Gerechtigkeit. Studien zur Genese und historischen Entwicklung des Postulats der Gerechtigkeit. Weilerswist: Velbrück
Eisenstadt, Shmuel N. (2006): Theorie und Moderne. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag
Elias, Norbert (41977): Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation / Band 2. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp
Hedström, Peter / Wittrock, Björn (Eds.) (2009): Frontiers of Sociology. Leiden / Boston: Brill
Wallerstein, Immanuel (42006): World-Systems Analysis. Durham and London: Duke University Press
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