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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME COURSE DESCRIPTION |
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| Name of the Course Unit | Code | Year | Semester | In-Class Hours (T+P) | Credit | ECTS Credit |
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| POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY | POL402 | 4 | 8 | 3+0 | 3.0 | 6.0 |
| Weekly Course Contents and Study Materials for Preliminary & Further Study | ||
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| Week | Topics (Subjects) | Preparatory & Further Activities |
| 1 | Week 1 Introduction | No file found |
| 2 | Week 2 Changing Definitions of Politics and Power I: Durkheimian Tradition | No file found |
| 3 | Week 3 Changing Definitions of Politics and Power II: Weberian Tradition | No file found |
| 4 | Week 4: Changing Definitions of Politics and Power III: Marxist Tradition | No file found |
| 5 | Week 5: Changing Definitions of Politics and Power IV: Foucauldian Tradition | No file found |
| 6 | Week 6: Student Debate Week Debate Questions What does political sociology study? What is power? How can the concept of power be studied in empirical political sociology? In what sense Weber is anti-Marxist? Is Gramsci's theory of hegemony still relevant to understand state-society relations? What is the source of power according to Weber? Is Durkheim’s meritocratic society achievable? |
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| 7 | Week 7: Mid-terms | No file found |
| 8 | Week8: The Issue of Citizenship | No file found |
| 9 | Week 8: The Politics of Collective Identity and Action | No file found |
| 10 | Week 9: Student Debate II Debate Questions: Are nations imagined communities as suggested by contemporary political sociology? Is citizenship gendered? What evidence can you present to agree or disagree with T. Marshall’s approach to citizenship? |
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| 11 | Week 10: Quiz | No file found |
| 12 | Week 11: Political Transformations: Democratization, Globalisation and the new Era for State-Society Relations | No file found |
| 13 | Week 12: Civil Society and the Global Civil Society | No file found |
| 14 | Week 13 Conclusions and Revision Week 14 Finals |
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