FSS:SOC259 Reading Clasics - Course Information
SOC259 Reading Clasics
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Roman Vido, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Thu 17:00–18:30 U35
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SOC105 Sociological classics
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HE) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-KS) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-MS) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PL) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PS) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SO) (4)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SP) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-TV) (2)
- Course objectives
- The objective of the course is to broaden student´s knowledge of classical sociology by reading of and working with selected pieces of primary sources written by the classics. At the end of the course students should be able to identify basic ideas and theses in the selected readings, to interpret their meanings, to apply them on the social reality of contemporary societies as well as compare different sociological analyses of the life in modern societies. A detailed work with the texts will be emphasized with ability to understand them correctly and put them into a broader social and intellectual context.
- Syllabus
- 1. Charles de Montesquieu 2. Edmund Burke 3. Alexis de Tocqueville 4. Gustave Le Bon 5. José Ortega y Gasset 6. Adam Smith 7. Karl Marx 8. Émile Durkheim 9. Max Weber 10. George Simmel
- Literature
- WEBER, Max. Metodologie, sociologie a politika. Translated by Miloš Havelka. 2., opr. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2009, 351 s. ISBN 9788072983896. URL info
- DURKHEIM, Émile. Společenská dělba práce. Translated by Pavla Doležalová. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2004, 375 s. ISBN 8073250411. info
- MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Seconda. O duchu zákonů. Edited by Markéta Šálená, Translated by Stanislav Lyer. Dobrá Voda: Aleš Čeněk, 2003, 365 s. ISBN 80-86473-30-9. info
- SMITH, Adam. Pojednání o podstatě a původu bohatství národů. Translated by Vladimír Irgl. Nové, přeprac. vyd. opatř. Praha: Liberální institut, 2001, 986 s. ISBN 8086389162. info
- TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Demokracie v Americe. Translated by Vladimír Jochmann. Vyd. 2., v nakladatelství A. Praha: Academia, 2000, 624 s. ISBN 8020008292. info
- SIMMEL, Georg. Peníze v moderní kultuře a jiné eseje. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1997, 206 s. ISBN 80-85850-50-8. info
- LE BON, Gustave. Psychologie davu. Praha: KRA, 1997, 102 s. info
- BURKE, Edmund. Úvahy o revoluci ve Francii. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 1997, 278 s. ISBN 80-85959-23-2. info
- ORTEGA Y GASSET, José. Vzpoura davů. Edited by Milan Váňa, Translated by Václav Černý - Josef Forbelský. Vyd. 1. Praha: Naše vojsko, 1993, 158 s. ISBN 8020600728. info
- MARX, Karl. Odcizení a emancipace člověka. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1967, 381 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- seminar, reading, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- Students hand in written homework and write a final essay.
- 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.
General note: Kurs je určen pro posluchače kombinovaného studia, a má proto specifický způsob vyuky.Předmět nebude vyučován pokud si ho zapíše méně než 5 studujících. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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