It touches on many areas of contemporary life, e.g. social condition, change, religion, power, mobility, etc.
Same definitions occur.
The course aims at familiarizing the students with fundamental in classical sociological theory. The focus is upon issues concerning the methodology of the social sciences, the transition to modernity and the basic characteristics of capitalist society. The aim is to examine the role of classical texts in the evolution of sociology, as well as in contemporary sociological thought. On the one hand, it tries to enrich our understanding of other societies while, on the other, uses these other societies as a kind of mirror which can shed light on the particularities of our own cuture. This course deals with the scientific method of investigating social phenomena.