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| | Department of Sociology, UCC |
 | | - history of sociological thought (apart from the classical figures, special interest in Gabriel Tarde, crowd psychology (Gustave Le Bon), elite theory (Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Roberto Michels), Karl Mannheim); |
 | | - historical sociology (long-term comparative civilisational perspective; civilisational analysis, the civilising process; 'axial age' theories (Karl Jaspers, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Jan Assmann), 'reflexive historical sociology' (including also Lewis Mumford and Franz Borkenau); the links between pilgrimage, monasticism and the Crusades - especially Alphonse Dupront); |
 | | - bringing together the links sociology has with anthropology (Marcel Mauss, Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, René Girard, Mary Douglas, Colin Turnbull, Gregory Bateson), and comparative mythology (Georges Dumézil, Karl Kerényi, Mircea Eliade, Walter Burkert); |
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