MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
HSY3870
Social theory and social history
Graeme Davison
8 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, Freud, Bloch, Braudel, E P Thompson, Michel Foucault and
representative feminist and ethnographic historians.
Assessment Essay (1500 words): 30% + Long essay (2500 words): 40% +
Take-home examination (2000 words): 30%
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
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