SOCIAL SCIENCE 2 - University of the Philippines Visayas



SOCIAL SCIENCE 2

(SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL THOUGHT)

Course Description:

A survey of social, economic and political thinkers from the classical to contemporary times.

Credit: 3 units

RGEP Cluster: Social Sciences and Philosophy (SSP)

Offered By: Division of Social Sciences/College of Arts and Sciences

U. P. in the Visayas, Miagao, Iloilo

General Objectives:

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

1. To help the students understand and appreciate the important ideas of selected social, economic and political thinkers

2. To enable the students to locate the ideas in their respective historical contexts

3. To help the students understand the society’s evolution which produced the present social., economic and political condition or arrangement

4. To use the ideas as guide in understanding and analyzing the present social, economic and political condition of the Philippines and the world

Course Outline

I. The Origin and Nature of Government

A. Plato- The Republic

1. Classes in the state of Plato

2. The correct spelling of truth

3. Three waves

B. Aristotle- Politics

1. Classification of Constitution

2. Good man and a good Citizen

3. Aristotle vs. Plato

C. Hobbes-The Leviathan

1. Nature of Man and the State of Nature

2. Social Contract

3. Rights of the Sovereign

D. Locke- Two Treatise of Civil Government

1. Nature of Man and the State of Nature

2. Social Contract

3. Limits of the Legislative Power

E. Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto

1. Characteristics and Development of the Proletariats

2. Relationship of the Proletariats and the bourgeoisie

II. Dynamics of Government

A. Machiavelli - The Prince

1. Political Realism

2. Characteristics of the Prince

3. Fortuna and Virtu

B. Pareto - The Mind and Society

1. Elites and Circulation

2. Use of Force

III. Economic and Sociological Thought

A. Smith-The Wealth of the Nation

1. Specialization of Labor

2. Foreign vs. Domestic Trade

3. Role of the Government

IV. Sociological Thought

A. Tocqueville-Democracy in America

1. Relative Equality in America

2. Mass Society

B. Friedrich Nietzsche-Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra

1. Attack on Christianity

2. Dynamics of the Will

3. Reevaluation of Values

V. Course Integration

References:

Curtis, Michael. (1981) The Great Political Thinkers. Vol. 1 and Vol.2 Ne York: Avon Books.

Dahbour , Omar and Ishay, Micheline R. (Eds.) (1995) The Nationalism Reader Humanities Press, New Jersey

Ebenstein, William and Ebenstein, Alan. (2000). Great Political Thinkers. Plato to the Present. Sixth Edition. Wadsworth: Thompson.

Collins, Randal and Makowsky, Michael. (1993). The Discovery of Society. Fifth Edition. New Jersey: McGraw-Hill, Inc

Selected Readings in Social Science 2.

Course requirements/Grading Scheme:

Quizzes and Class Participation 20%

Triad/Dyad Paper 20%

2 Long Exams 30%

Final Exam 30%

100%

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