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Introduction to sociology. Basic contours of the sociologicalapproach.1 Keythemesinthestudyofindustrialsociety:summaryof main issues from Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber: integration, anomie; alienation, class struggle, transition from feudalism to capitalism; impersonality, technicalrationality,bureaucratization,etc.6 Different forms of material production, distribution and exchange.4 Origins of industrial society. Early industrialization in England,Germany,France,Japan,USSRandUSA.4
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IndustrializationinIndia.4 Shifts in modes of organization scientific management, human relations and contingency approaches. Group processes.4 Late industrial society. Formal knowledge, the consumer society,cultureindustry,reflexivemodernity.3 Labourrelations.Collectivebargaining.Differentkindsof tradeunions.4 The future: multiple models of industrialization: collectivist,anarchist,freemarket,etc.trajectories.8 ProjectPresentations5
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