SOC254 Chapters in Cultural Sociology

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2015
Rozsah
1/1/0. 12 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Dr. Werner Binder (přednášející)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Čt 15:15–16:45 U35
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Course Description:
Arguably, signs, symbols and meanings have always been the province of sociologists but not always their primary concern. Many believe we have finally taken or are in the midst of taking a “cultural turn” in contemporary sociology. Problems of meaning, discourse, aesthetics, value, textuality, narrativity, and performativity, topics traditionally within the purview of humanists, have come to the fore as sociologists increasingly emphasize the role of meanings, symbols, cultural frames and cognitive schema in their theorization of social processes and institutions.
This course will focus on the sociology of performance and its contribution to the cultural sociological perspective. We will start with classical accounts on performativity from Austin and Goffman and proceed to contemporary theorists and issues, for example Judith Butler and the performance of Gender or Jeffrey Alexander's account on social performances in politics. The aim of this course is to provide knowledge about performances and performativity in different spheres of social life as well as to provide analytical tools for the empirical analysis of different social phenomena.
Osnova
  • Timetable:
  • Seminar 1: Organizational Meeting
  • Seminar 2: Introduction to Cultural Sociology
  • Seminar 3: Performative Speech Acts
  • Seminar 4: Ritual and Performance
  • Seminar 5: Performances in Everyday Life
  • Seminar 6: Social Performance
  • Seminar 7: Reading Week - No Class
  • Seminar 8: Gender as Performance
  • Seminar 9: Cultural Performances
  • Seminar 10: Economics as Performative
  • Seminar 11: Politics as Performance
  • Seminar 12: Social Dramas and Public Apologies
  • Seminar 13: Intellectual Performances
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual. Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander - Bernhard Giesen - Jason L. Mast. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xv, 374. ISBN 9780521857956. info
    doporučená literatura
  • ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C. The meanings of social life : a cultural sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, 296 p. ISBN 9780195306408. info
  • Culture and society : contemporary debates. Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander - Steven Seidman. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, vii, 375 s. ISBN 0-521-35086-7. info
  • EDLES, Laura Desfor. Cultural sociology in practice. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, ix, 265 s. ISBN 0-631-21090-3. info
  • INGLIS, David. Culture and everyday life. 1st ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005, x, 159. ISBN 0415319269. info
  • SMITH, Philip a Alexander RILEY. Cultural theory : an introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, 307 p. ISBN 9781405169073. URL info
    neurčeno
  • ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C. Performative revolution in Egypt : an essay in cultural power. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011, xv, 138. ISBN 9781780930886. info
  • ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C. The performance of politics : Obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, xiv, 364. ISBN 9780199744466. info
  • AUSTIN, J. L. How to do things with words : the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, vii, 166. ISBN 0198812345. info
  • GOFFMAN, Erving. The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959, xii, 259. info
Výukové metody
Class discussions, response papers, presentations, essays
Metody hodnocení
Conditions for passing the course:

1. Regular attendance
2. Eight response papers (1-2 pages) – 50%
2. Participation in the discussion – 30%
3. Presentation in class OR final essay (6-8 pages) - 20%
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Werner Binder - Room 3.50
Office Hours:
Tuesday 10:00 - 12:00
For other days and times please contact me.

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