SOC 439 Western Social Thought
An overview of social thought from Antiquity to the present, including such thinkers as Plato, St. Paul, Augustine, Luther, Machiavelli, Hegel, Marx, Freud and Mead. The student will become familiar with a large number of thinkers, their historical context, and their relationships both to one another and to basic questions of human society. Students interested in sociology, history, theology and philosophy will find this course a useful integration of these disciplines.