This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...

The Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory offers students a background in the philosophical foundations of critical theory. Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ...

Interaction-based traditions in sociology, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis (CA), and Goffmanian studies of the interaction order, have long argued ...

Social theory comprises a diverse set of frameworks for interpreting how individuals, groups and institutions interact, form meanings and produce collective structures. Originating in the nineteenth ...

This course is divided in four parts. In the first part, we will discuss various definitions of "sociological theory" and reflect on approaches to studying theories, including the sociology of ...