SOC 307 - Sociology of Empire

Students may think empire is an unfamiliar topic to sociology. When we say “society” in many sociology classes, we mostly assume the society is a nation-state. As sociology is interested in something “modern” and notion-states are considered to be products of “modernity,” one often defers studying empire ot colonialism to historians and scholars in other related fields. In contrast, this course reveals empires and colonies have inseparable relations to the making of modern societies, as well as sociology.