Historical Sociology

Pre-requisites: Elementary knowledge of history and sociology

Course objectives: Understanding ways in which sociology examines history and uses historical frameworks. Introducing students to structural, comparative and contra-effectual approaches to history.

Course description: Creation and development of historic sociology, accuracy in history, main factors in social change, actors and structures, necessities and accidents, main theoretical-methodological questions in a sociological approach to history.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, students will have mastered fundamental ideas in historical sociology, will be familiar with key tenets of major historical-sociological theories and will be capable of using socio-historic knowledge to understand contemporary society.

Historical Sociology

Pre-requisites: Elementary knowledge of history and sociology

Course objectives: Understanding ways in which sociology examines history and uses historical frameworks. Introducing students to structural, comparative and contra-effectual approaches to history.

Course description: Creation and development of historic sociology, accuracy in history, main factors in social change, actors and structures, necessities and accidents, main theoretical-methodological questions in a sociological approach to history.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, students will have mastered fundamental ideas in historical sociology, will be familiar with key tenets of major historical-sociological theories and will be capable of using socio-historic knowledge to understand contemporary society.

Literature/Reading:

• Slobodan Antonić, Izazovi istorijske sociologije, Beograd, Institut za političke studije, 1995.
• Karl Marks, Kapital, prvi tom, glava dvadeset četvrta (str. 630-673)
• Maks Veber, Privreda i društvo, tom 2, str. 297-340
• Tolkot Parsons, Moderna društva, «Gradina», Niš 1992, str.40-42, i 68-93.
• Džared Dajmond: Mikrobi, puške i čelik: Sudbine ljudskih društava. Beograd: Dosije, 2004, str. 11-46.
• Barington Mur, Društveni koreni diktature i demokratije,«Filip Višnjić», Beograd 2000, str. 151-205.
• Imanuel Volerstin, Savremeni svetski sistem, «Cekade», Zagreb 1986, str. 13-19 i 58-88.
• Pol Ven, «Istorija, sociologija, potpuna istorija», u Lj. Mitrović i D. Todorović (ur), Sociologija i istorija, str. 17-33, FF u Nišu, Niš 2003.
• Džefri Pejdž, «Okolnost, poređenje i kondicionalna teorija u makrosocijalnom istraživanju» (priručni prevod).
• Leri Grifin, «Pripovest, analiza strukture događaja i uzročno tumačenje u istorijskoj sociologiji» (priručni prevod).
• Najal Ferguson, «Virtuelna istorija: ka ’haotičnoj’ teoriji prošlosti» (priručni prevod).