Course12710687560 lectures
Social Theory: Concepts and Debates
Prof. Anu Sabhlok · IISER Mohali
Lectures
Week 1
- The Social
- The Sociological Imagination
- The Spatial imagination
- Social Theory- a genealogy
- Socio-spatial Imagination
Week 2
- Karl Marx - Influences and trajectory of thought
- Alienation - From philosophical concept to social theory
- Historical Materialism
- Capital - A Critique of Political Economy
- Capital - Understanding Exploitation, Crises and Primitive Accumulation
Week 3
- Rules of the Sociological Method
- The Division of Labour in Society
- Suicide: A Sociological Study
- The Colour Line, Double-Conciousness and the Veil
- Situating Gender
Week 4
- Ideal type and value-free social science
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - 1
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - 2
- Power, Authority and Domination
- Debates in Classical Social Theory
Week 5
- Critique of Everyday Life
- The Production of Space
- Spatialising Capital
- For Space
- Spatial imagination in practice
Week 6
- Michele Foucault - From archaeology to genealogy
- Discipline and Punish
- Michele Foucault - Governmentality
- Nationalism in the colonial world
- The Politics of the Governed
Week 7
- Social Reproduction Theory
- Regimes of Accumulation
- What would a non-sexist city be like?
- The Managed Heart
- Social Reproduction in our Everyday Life
Week 8
- What is Feminist Theory
- Feminist Standpoint Theory
- Intersectionality
- Gender Trouble
- Dalit Feminism in India
Week 9
- Critical Theory
- Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
- An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory
- An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (cont.)
- Public Sphere in India
Week 10
- Symbolic Interactionism
- A Theory of Practice
- Graded Inequality
- Village Studies- then and now
- Hegemony
Week 11
- Southern Theory
- Necropolitics
- Urban Political Ecology
- Prespectives on Urbanisation
- Urban Theory from the Global South
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IISER Mohali
- Department
- Multidisciplinary
- Teacher
- Prof. Anu Sabhlok
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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