HIST 591

Fall 2014 All Classes

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History and Social Theory

Credit: 4 hours.

Introduces recent historical work drawing upon theories and concepts from the social sciences; considers fields of inquiry which include family history, demographic history, labor history, prosopographical and entrepreneurial studies, local and regional studies, and others.

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HIST 591 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43938	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Ghamari-Tabrizi, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Section Info: Description: This course surveys social theories from the mid-nineteenth century through the late twentieth that have important bearing on the way historians conceive of society and culture in their work. Beginning with "classic" Western social theorists who addressed the characteristics of modern, capitalist societies, the course moves on to examine twentieth-century theorists who have addressed how individual and collective meanings contribute to the social distinctions and relations of power at stake in the social relations of a range of societies and, finally, to theorists who have questioned classic and Eurocentric accounts of these distinctions and relations from perspectives of new accounts of power and social difference associated with race, gender, and the "postmodern." Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.