SOCA 235 - History of Social Thought

Credits: 3
Through close readings and discussions of historically significant thinkers who have driven discussions of how (1) best to think about how society should be organized and by whom, from the Axial Age to the present, (2) what was the role of individual citizens in such societies,(3) how were church and state to engage citizens in their conceptions of the good society, (4 ) what alternatives citizen groups or individual citizens chose in rejecting the hegemonies of church and state with their feudal and patriarchal hierarchies, (5) what was the social condition of most women in these societies, (6) how invisible were people of color in this societal mix, (7) how differently did modern and contemporary social/political (the social/political categories merge throughout intellectual history) thinkers challenge this history of human classist interaction in informed ways by which our society has developed in these United States; (8) what do we now consider the just society to be, (9) what is the responsibility of our society to its environment and to the others in our global village.*