| This course introduces you to the discipline of sociology in three ways. |
| First, we examine readings, theories and debates from the founding sociological thinkers about society, inequality, identity, religion, rationalization, and modernity. These ideas pervade contemporary social thought and will inevitably reappear throughout your liberal arts education, even if you should never take another sociology course. |
| Second, we examine contemporary sociological work that expands, synthesizes, and challenges the ideas and debates established by the founding sociologists. In this way, we will replicate how current sociologists engage the classical tradition, rather than just read about it. |
| Finally, through discussion and writing we practice a "sociological imagination" to understand how sociology as a way of thinking can illuminate our lives and the world around us. |