SOC442 Social construction of identity

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Edita Bezdičková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Division of Sociology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 exP24
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
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;
to analyze the basic sociological perspectives of identity formation;
develop sociological interpretation of empirical cases of identity formation on the ground of acquired knowledge.
Syllabus
  • Subject and language I: ideology
  • Subject and language II: discourse
  • Psychoanalysis and the process of identification I: experience
  • Psychoanalysis and the process of identification II: institutions
  • Identity, sociology, history I: genealogy
  • Identity, sociology, history II: subjectivisation
  • Reading week
  • Randall Collins and the radical microsociology
  • Emotional energies and rituals
  • Interaction markets and material markets
  • Internalized symbols and the social process of thinking
  • Applications of radical microsociology
  • Individualism and inwardness as social products
Literature
  • COLLINS, Randall. Interaction ritual chains. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004, xx, 439. ISBN 0691090270. URL info
  • Brubaker, Rogers, and Frederick Cooper. 2000. “Beyond "Identity".” Theory and Society 29:1-47.
  • BUTLER, Judith. Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge, 1999, xxxiii, 22. ISBN 0415924995. info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Language and symbolic power. Edited by John B. Thompson. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, ix, 302 s. ISBN 0-7456-0097-2. info
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. Communication and the evolution of society. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991, xxiv, 239. ISBN 0-7456-0846-9. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Power/knowledge : selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977. Edited by Colin Gordon, Translated by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977, xii, 270 s. ISBN 0-394-73954-X. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, presentations.
Assessment methods
presentations, position papers, final paper.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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/podzim2009/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 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010.
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