SOC442 Social construction of identity

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 U33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
This course provides an introduction to key themes in the field, with identity explored in both theoretical and empirical ways. On the one hand, it focuses on the innovative sociological works that explore and re-conceptualize the ideas of subjectivity and self-hood in the context of the recent cultural and social changes. On the other, the question of identity formation is explored from within substantive areas of sociology such as the sociology of memory.
At the end of this course, students should be able to understand and explain key concepts like collective identity, self-identity, social identity, class consciousness, ethnic identities and ethnization, gender identities, local identities, national identities, cosmopolitan identities.
Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows:
to understand and analyze the basic sociological perspectives of identity formation.
to understand and analyze the role of memory and forgetting in collective identity formation.
Syllabus
  • Introduction.
  • Basic concepts: Eisenstadt, Shmuel, N., Bernard Giesen., Benedict Anderson.
  • Racist and ethnocentric identities: Stuart Hall.
  • Social classes and class consciousness: Georg Lukacs.
  • Gender, sexuality and problematisation of identities: Judith Butler.
  • National and transnational identities: Micheal Fetherstone.
  • Language, knowledge and identity: Hyden White.
  • Interpretation and the subjectivisation of the Self: Michel Foucault.
  • Memory and counter-memory: Pierre Nora, Michel Foucault.
  • Emancipation, sciences and the subject of resistance: Michael Roth, Frank Pignatelli.
  • Institutionalisation and politics of memory: James, E. Young.
  • Emotions, justice and the burden of history: Renato Rosaldo.
Literature
  • Pohledy na národ a nacionalismus :čítanka textů. Edited by Miroslav Hroch. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2003, 451 s. ISBN 80-86429-20-2. info
  • Identities :race, class, gender, and nationality. Edited by Linda Martín Alcoff - Eduardo Mendieta. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, xv, 428 s. ISBN 0-631-21723-1. info
  • viz https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/podzim2008/SOC442/index.qwarp
Assessment methods
Form of teaching: lectures and seminars.
Course requirements: (a) 2 short review essays (b) final paper (c) presentation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/podzim2008/SOC442/index.qwarp
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011.
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