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Seminar
WiSe 19/20: Theories of Integration
Harald Wenzel
Comments
Notions of social integration and social order have long been considered to be constitutive for social theory. More recently, though, this focus has been fading and has given way to both, more basic and more complex conceptualizations of the social. -----
This lecture course presents a sketch of this long trajectory – starting with the most basic forms of social order that already characterize the beginning of human evolution. It offers an overview of the different paradigms and theoretical perspectives that historically have made social order their focus – with an emphasis on normative solutions for the problem of social order. Alternative conceptualizations of the social are explored in contrast to these classical approaches of sociological theory. Their spectrum reaches from Pragmatism to Performative Studies, Ethnomethodology and the work of Bruno Latour. The challenge is to understand the radical change – substantial and theoretical – that social ties and social networks have been undergoing in what could be called the introduction of a “constitutive accent” (Harold Garfinkel) into sociological theory. -----
Recommeded as introductory literature: Michele Dillon, Introduction to Sociological Theory: Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 2014. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2019-10-14 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-10-21 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-10-28 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-11-04 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-11-11 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-11-18 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-11-25 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-12-02 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-12-09 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2019-12-16 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2020-01-06 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2020-01-13 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2020-01-20 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2020-01-27 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2020-02-03 12:00 - 14:00
Mon, 2020-02-10 12:00 - 14:00