The sociology is a science that studies human society, understood as a set of individuals who live together in various types of associations, communities and institutions. This requires usually theoretical models, a “Theory” that can explain those phenomena. In our career, a great topic, are the “contemporary theories”, which have tried to explain the social facts and social relations.
In “Theory 3”, we have learned about various authors, among them the biggest in recent times, as Habermas, Luhmann and Bourdieu. Habermas said that the traditional processes of democracy don`t provide a space for collective decision-making; but the public sphere can be reformed to promote the participation of community bodies, avoiding the colonization of the World of life by the systems. On the other part, Luhmann changed completely the form to understand to society. Leave aside completely the idea of a society composed of men, proposing a society emerging as the level at which reproduces social communications. Finally, Bourdieu, trying to overcome the traditional duality between sociology and social structures objectivism, on the one side, as opposed to social action and subjectivism (hermeneutics), on the other side. This gives two new concepts, habitus and the countryside, and reinvents an already established, the capital.
I think that in general the course succeeds in taking the broader aspects of contemporary sociology, so for me it is difficult to define other related materials. Establish Perhaps more importantly relations with the empirical world that enlarge the spectrum is theoretical. I believe further, that this type of discussion in particular, have been those that have motivated me to become interested in it.
Links:
http://www.geocities.com/tomaustin_cl/soc/Habermas/portal.htm
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/montreal.htm
In “Theory 3”, we have learned about various authors, among them the biggest in recent times, as Habermas, Luhmann and Bourdieu. Habermas said that the traditional processes of democracy don`t provide a space for collective decision-making; but the public sphere can be reformed to promote the participation of community bodies, avoiding the colonization of the World of life by the systems. On the other part, Luhmann changed completely the form to understand to society. Leave aside completely the idea of a society composed of men, proposing a society emerging as the level at which reproduces social communications. Finally, Bourdieu, trying to overcome the traditional duality between sociology and social structures objectivism, on the one side, as opposed to social action and subjectivism (hermeneutics), on the other side. This gives two new concepts, habitus and the countryside, and reinvents an already established, the capital.
I think that in general the course succeeds in taking the broader aspects of contemporary sociology, so for me it is difficult to define other related materials. Establish Perhaps more importantly relations with the empirical world that enlarge the spectrum is theoretical. I believe further, that this type of discussion in particular, have been those that have motivated me to become interested in it.
Links:
http://www.geocities.com/tomaustin_cl/soc/Habermas/portal.htm
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/montreal.htm
