https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/SOCL5115?type=COREThe course follows four lines of thinking about the social world. First, we try to discern what is specific about sociological thinking. We continue by investigating the meaning of "society", and we explore several possible answers to two questions: How is society possible? And, What holds the social fabric together? We move on to discuss the relationship between modernity and capitalism as problematized by theorists who have become "the classics" of social sciences, emphasizing their efforts to understand the organization of life in capitalism as totality. We continue by investigating how major classical theorists thought about the fundamental lines of fracture in society: class, race, and gender. We dedicate the last weeks of the course to discussing power, ideology, and the urban form, which greatly puzzled modern thinkers. The course combines a survey of major ideas in social theory with close reading of key primary texts. Through the work of several major thinkers, we will survey concepts and categories that are central to social thought. Students will be expected to do the required readings, so we can have a deep and detailed discussion of the concepts and ideas featured in the texts. By the end of the semester, I hope we will share a common system of references and vocabulary, which will further help students with their academic work and with their future endeavours outside the classroom.