Description
This course will examine and evaluate the assumptions and methodology of a sociological theory termed Critical Theory. Critical Theory as informed by a supra-disciplinary research which attempts to construct a systematic, comprehensive social theory that can confront social, economic and political issues from an encompassing perspective rather than the traditional single discipline, inter-disciplinary or multidisciplinary approaches which tend to maintain the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines in the analysis and abstractions of contemporary issues. Change is a dominant assumption of critical theory; sociohistorical context is crucial in determining which questions a theory poses, how the theory formulates and answers such questions and what limitations, grounds and insights such a theory produces. The course will examine the principle methodology of critical theory: dialectical investigations. The laws of dialectic that will be examined are: the relations within and be