SOCY 151: Foundations of Modern Social Theory
Lecture 01 - Introduction. Professor Szelenyi introduces the course to the students. Then he introduces each social thinker we will cover in the course: Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, and Durkheim. He provides an overview of their biographies, their major works, and their major contributions. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 01 - Introduction |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
| [00:14:36] | 2. Hobbes: The Troublemaker |
| [00:19:07] | 3. Locke's Separation of Powers |
| [00:21:50] | 4. The Adventurous Life and Work of Montesquieu |
| [00:27:00] | 5. Rousseau: The Renaissance Man |
| [00:34:17] | 6. The Two Adam Smiths |
| [00:37:58] | 7. Mill's (Revisionist) Utilitarianism |
| [00:40:51] | 8. The Well-Known Marx |
| [00:41:51] | 9. Nietzsche: The First Post-modern Theorist |
| [00:43:12] | 10. Brief Overviews on Freud, Weber and Durkheim |
| References |
| Lecture 1 - Introduction Instructor: Professor Ivan Szelenyi. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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