CZS03 Cultural and Social Modernization in Central Europe: Resurrecting Civil Society

Pan-university studies
Autumn 2004
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Thomas Donaldson Sparling, B.A.
Pan-university studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Věra Honzíková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The adaptation of the Central and Eastern European populations to the transformed historical conditions after the political change in 1989 is examined in two main blocks - civic culture (the concept of a civil society, social trust, social capital, social networks, the development of the civic sector) and the reconstruction of social identities (globalization and its local effects, the reconstruction of memories and identities, cultural practices of nationalism, new forms of conflict and solidarity).
Syllabus
  • 1.-2. Introduction to the course: outline of the concept of civil society 3. Contemporary revival of the concept of civil society 4. Civil society and democratic transitions: Shifting meanings of civil society in the transition process 5. Forms of opposition before 1989: dissents, grey zones, islands of positive deviation 6. State socialism nad civil society 7. Everyday culture and socila movements: the case of feminism 8. Sourses of public engagement: truskt, social capital, social networks, and civic skills 9. Social capital and civil society 10. Institutional development of the civic sector in East Central Europe after 1989 11. Problems of professionalization and oligarchization of the civic sector 12. Institutionalization of protest
Assessment methods (in Czech)
lectures, a written exam
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://www.rect.muni.cz/ois/students/special_programs%2C_individual_courses/cesp
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Spring 2006, Spring 2007.
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