MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Graduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
HYM4870
Social theory and social history
Graeme Davison
8 or 12 points + One 2-hour seminar per week + First semester +
Clayton
Synopsis 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 (8 points) Research essay (4000 words): 60% + Take-home
examination: 40%
Assessment (12 points) Research essay (4000 words): 40% + Essay (3000
words): 30% + Take-home examination: 30%
Prescribed texts
- Bloch M Feudal society RKP, 1961
- Braudel F Capitalism and material life 1400-1800 Harper, 1973
- Burke P History and social theory Polity, 1992
- 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
| Subjects Part 1
| Arts Graduate Handbook
| Monash handbooks
| Monash University