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In this course you will learn :
Week - 1: Introduction: Modernity as a project of Enlightenment
Week - 2: Modernist paradigm in sociology: modern science, industrialisation and development
Week - 3-5: Sociological modernism: Marx, Weber and Simmel
Week - 6-7: Structuralist interpretation: Levi-Strauss and Althusser
Week - 8-9: Western Marxism: Lukacs, Gramsci and Touraine
Week - 10: Synthesising modernity: Wallerstein, Giddens and Habermas
Week - 11: Deconstructing modernity, modernity in non-modern contexts, the idea of alternative or multiple modernities
Week - 12: Reflexivity: dialectic of engaging with and interrogating modernity
