Subject Area: Sociology & Anthropology<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Development Studies<br/><br/>This course is an introduction to sociological and anthropological perspectives on the nature of the social. It raises central questions such as What is the social? What is the relation between the individual and society? How is the social lived and experienced? How do we understand the everyday? Through themes such as biography and selfhood, love and care,identity and difference, sanity and insanity, seeing and knowing, power andfreedom, nature and culture, memory and time, and state and nation we examine the limits and possibilities of the social. On... -- Course Website
