HIST 591

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History and Social Theory

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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 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43938	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	1068 Lincoln Hall	Chaplin, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: Description: “Theory”—love it or hate it, social theory provides the epistemological framework through which historians, sociologists and other scholars in the humanistic and social science disciplines conceptualize our world. But what is social theory? How does it relate to historical practices? Are history and social theory fundamentally incompatible? How might social theory bolster historical work? Our goal will be to develop a “theoretical toolbox” that is both available and useful to us as historians, scholars, and educators. We will examine canonical 19th and 20th century social theory, as well as postmodern, feminist, postcolonial and queer critical approaches. Our readings will draw on the scholarship of scholars like Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud, Gramsci, Adorno, Habermas, Geertz, Goffman, Bourdieu, Althusser, Kuhn, Foucault, Lyotard, Scott, Butler, Fanon, Bhaba, Halberstam and Ahmed. Work includes producing short critical responses, leading discussion, and writing one longer paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.