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    Communities: Key Institutions and Relationships

    Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson begins by discussing how modern perceptions of the ‘traditional’ community have informed the manner in which the early modern social landscape is discussed. From here he moves on to address the lived reality of community and social bonds in […]

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-qdApVXVS0

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    Households: Structures, Priorities, Strategies, Roles

    Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson lectures on the structures of households in early modern England. Differentiating between urban and rural households, the households of great lords and those of yeoman, husbandmen, and craftsmen, the varying structures and compositions of households are discussed. The process […]

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    Century

    Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson provides a broad sketch of the social order of early modern England, focusing on the hierarchical language of “estates” and “degrees” and the more communitarian ideal of the “commonwealth” by which society was organized. The differences between the social […]

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    General Introduction

    Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson provides an introduction to the course. He briefly discusses the main features of the political and social landscape of early modern England and then summarizes the broad social and structural changes that occurred during the period. Professor Wrightson offers […]

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    Durkheim on Suicide

    Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Durkheim’s Suicide is a foundational text for the discipline of sociology, and, over a hundred years later, it remains influential in the study of suicide. Durkheim’s study demonstrates that what is thought to be a highly individual act is actually socially patterned and has social, not only psychological, […]

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cu29S-jvxQ

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    Durkheim and Types of Social Solidarity

    Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Emile Durkheim, a French scholar who lived from 1858 until 1917, was one of the first intellectuals to use the term “sociology” to describe his work. In the early years of his career, Durkheim’s orientation was functionalist (The Division of Labor in Society) and positivist (The Rules of […]

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    The Rawlsian Social Contract

    The next and final Enlightenment tradition to be examined in the class is that of John Rawls, who, according to Professor Shapiro, was a hugely important figure not only in contemporary political philosophy, but also in the field of philosophy as a whole. The class is introduced to some of the principal features of Rawls’s […]

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uV3p9bMD4I
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