1. Students will identify the assumptions of classical social theorists and philosophers on the concepts of the essence of life, human nature, history and society.

2. Students will trace the structuralist notions and poststructuralist paths in the works of classical social theorists and philosophers.

3. Students will locate “the social” at meta-theoretical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical levels by means of the perspectives of classical social theorists and philosophers.

4. Students will make sense of “social fact” by means of the perspectives of classical social theorists and philosophers.