SOC161 Historical Sociology

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Miloš Havelka, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Tue 14. 10. to Fri 12. 12. Tue 14:00–15:40 U34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 45 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/45, only registered: 0/45, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/45
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will introduce the newly developing field of historical sociology; present its problems, themes and methods.
Syllabus
  • (1) Historical sociology: subject and methods, problems and literature: the not-self-evident nature of the term “society”; concervatio sui and the transformation of anthropology in the New Age; Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes; the discovery of the future as a specific sphere of individual and social life.
  • (2) The beginning of the dualism of sciences: Philosophia naturalis and historia naturalis; Vic’s critique of Descartres; idiographic and nomothetic sciences; cultural and natural science; sociology as a non-cummulative science and the problem of history.
  • (3) History and sociology: the “Montesquieu Paradigm” or laws of nature and laws of society.
  • (4) History and sociology: the “von Ranke Paradigm” or the state, state interest and politics.
  • (5) History and sociology: differentiation of the problem – society, history and progress (A. Comte), society, citizen and the state; civil society (J. Locke, A. Ferguson, Alexis de Tocqueville), history, society and economics (K. Marx, M. Weber, W. Sombart), human being, community and religion (Fustel de Coulanges, E. Durkheim, E. Troeltsch).
  • (6) History and sociology: Historiography vs. sociology, or historically singular vs. comparatively general (G. von Schmoller, W. Dilthey, C. Meger, O. Hintze, G. von Bülow, „Masaryk’s sect“ and Goll’s school).
  • (7) History and sociology: Historical materialism and sociology (Adler, Bucharin).
  • (8) History and theory: The double understanding of theory in historical and societal sciences; metadisciplinary theories and theories related to a particular subject; history and memory; cultural change.
  • (9) Concepts: causalities, constellations, systems, structures; continuity and discontinuity.
  • (10) Communication: discourses, paradigms, world views.
  • (11) Problem fields: society – classes, groups, generation; power, dominion and action; institutions and organization.
  • (12) Problem fields: state and politics – absolutist, national and modern state; Elias: “court society”; democracy, liberalism, socialism.
  • (13) Problem fields: religion and values – secularization, disenchantment, disestablishment, alienation; sociology of emotions and mentality.
Literature
  • Burke, Peter. 2007. Společnost a vědění. Od Gutenberga k Diderotovi, Praha: Karolinum.
  • Šubrt, Jiří, (ed.). 2007. Historická sociologie, Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk.
  • WEBER, Max. Metodologie, sociologie a politika. Translated by Miloš Havelka. 1. vyd. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 1998, 354 s. ISBN 80-86005-48-8. info
Assessment methods
After each semester, a test from reading materials and lectures will take place.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015.
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