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Study Course Description

Contemporary Sociological Theory

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
SUPK_054
Branch of Science
Sociology and social work; Theory and History of Sociology
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Sociology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
40 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Bauman Z. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 2000

2.

Beck U. World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, rep.2008

3.

Bourdieu P. Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, Harvard University Press, 1984

4.

Castells M. TheRiseoftheNetworkSociety, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

5.

Giddens A. TheConstructionofSociety: OutlineoftheTheoryofStructuration. PolityPress, 1986.

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Giddens A. RunawayWorld: HowGlobalisationisReshapingourLives,Routledge, 2002

7.

Giddens A. TheConsequencesofModernity. Cambridge: Polity, 1990.

8.

Gidenss E., Sabiedrības veidošanās. AGB, 1999.

9.

Ritzer G. ModernSociologicalTheory. McGraw-HillHigherEducation, 2000.

10.

Ritzer G. TheMcDonaldizationofSociety, PineForgePress, 2004

11.

Webster F. TheoriesoftheInformationSociety. Routledge, 2002.

Additional Reading

1.

KeySociologicalThinkers. Ed. byRobStones. MacmillanPressLtd., 1998,

2.

ProfilesinContemporarySocialTheory. Ed.byAnthonyElliott&Bryan S. Turner, SagePublications, 2001.

3.

Полякова, H. ХХ век в социологическихтеорияхобщества. М. Логос., 2004.

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