Sources and Methods: Classics of Social Theory: Positivism and its Discontents

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This course illuminates the common origin of the social sciences in the intellectual currents of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing especially on the texts of Freud, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, and Saussure. Students reflect on what we mean by "social," "modernity," "science," "the family," "language," and "the psyche." CR: Only open to students in the Honors Program.