Brief guidelines for teaching sociological theory today

Abstract

The article discusses the relevance of teaching sociological theory and presents in a synthetic mode a set of guidelines for a program of study. The main argument is that the study of sociological theory should consider both classical and contemporary contributions, since Sociology is in a permanent process of critique and elaboration in order to deal with the social problems of our times.

Keywords

• sociological theory
• classical sociological theory
• contemporary sociological theory
• sociology teaching