Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GLOBAL HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, 19TH-20TH CENTURIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Montesquieu, Frazer, Spencer, Darwin established the concept of society. After reading in the canon, we track hybrid national traditions: U.S. (Haskell, Ross, Silverberg, Smith), Japan (Barshay, Howland, Bartholomew), China (Chiang, Zhang), India (Uberoi, Sudar, Deshpande), ending in critique of social science paradigms (Wallerstein, Cheah).