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Social Action in Communities, Markets and Policies Code Weight of the course Period Course Leader Lecturer Teaching Methods Exam Contact ISS-1112 3 ECTS TERM 1 Georgina Gomez Georgina Gomez, Amrita Chhachhi Participatory Lecture, Tutorials, Workshop Written examination: 100% Cisca Vorselman Learning objectives Students will develop an understanding of social life as a combination of stability and change. They will become familiar with fundamental concepts in sociology and by the end of the course they will have learnt to use the concepts learnt to analyse social action. Course description This course proposes to connect sociological theory with every day experiences. It aims to improve our understanding of social reality by using a series of sociological concepts like structure and agency, division of labour, differentiation and cohesion, power, legitimacy, class and gender. The course is organised in lectures by thematic groups, rather than theoretical paradigms. It reads social processes across the social, economic and political domains, an approach that follows the perspective of the classical sociologists. Max Weber, for example, titled one of his main works “Economy and Society” and Emile Durkheim considered the division of labour in production processes as a factor of social integration. During the course, a number of sociological concepts will be brought to life and used to reflect on issues like why we work extra hours that we are not paid for, what entitles our leaders to command us -and we behave accordingly- or why we engage in efforts to push for social change. The course is suitable for students with no previous knowledge of sociology but with a definite interest in sociological approaches to the economy, political economy and organisations. Indicative Readings C.J. Calhoun, J. Gerteis, J. Moody, S. and I. Virk (Eds.) (2005), Classical sociological theory