Course Details

1. Explain and critically discuss the descriptions, orientations and developments of social reality, experience and speculation.
2. Develop the fundamental, consequential and conceptual relations of interpretational mechanisms of social theories to a level that enables the construction of basic social theoretical schemata and examples.
3. Reproduction of social theories in practical situations.

Historical evolution of sociology as a science. The appearance of sociology. Social and spiritual background. The development of sciences, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution.

Sociology as an essential positivistic science: Auguste Comte  (1798-1857).

The evolutionary sociological theory: Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

Economy and Sociology, Criticism of Capitalism and the Sociology. Karl Marx (1818-1883).

The Understanding Sociology: Max Weber (1864-1920)

The idea of a morphological sociology: Georg Simmel (1858-1918)

Social Change and Elite: Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)

The ideas of symbolic interaction  (Mind, Self and Society): George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)

• Reader with a collection of articles.
• Ι.Craib, Κλασική Κοινωνιολογική Θεωρία, Αθήνα, Κατάρτι, 2009.

• Αντωνοπούλου, Μ. (2008), Οι κλασσικοί της κοινωνιολογίας. Κοινωνική θεωρία και νεότερη κοινωνία. Αθήνα: Σαββάλας.
• Aron, R. (1994) Η εξέλιξη της κοινωνιολογικής σκέψης, Τόμοι Α, Β, Αθήνα, Γνώση
• Timasheff N.S & Theodrson G.A. (1983), Ιστορία των κοινωνιολογικών θεωριών, Αθήνα: Gutenberg.