Social theory and social history
Ian Mylchreest
8 points * One 2-hour seminar per week * Second semester * Clayton
An examination of recent debates about the relationship between social theory and social history focusing on selected writers and texts including Marx, Weber, Bloch, Braudel, E P Thompson, Michel Foucault and representative feminist and ethnographic historians.
Assessment
Written (5000 words): 60% * Examination (3 hours): 40%
Prescribed texts
Burke P History and social theory Polity, 1992
Recommended texts
Bloch M Feudal society RKP, 1961
Braudel F Capitalism and material life 1400-1800 Harper, 1973
de Tocqueville A Democracy in America
Isaac R The transformation of Virginia 1740-1790 U North Carolina P, 1982
Marx K The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon Moscow Publishing House
Rabinow P (ed.) The Foucault reader Penguin, 1984
Smith-Rosenberg C Disorderly conduct: Visions of gender in Victorian America OUP, 1985
Thompson E P The making of the English working class Penguin, 1963
Weber M The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism Allen and Unwin, 1958