SANb2024 Age, Life Cycle and Ageing

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Wed 12:00–13:40 U35
Prerequisites
none
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduced the antropological perspectives on age, life cycle, and ageing. It offers the tools to understand the current societal issue of ageing. It focuses on the methodological aspect of doing research about life cycle, and presents the role of antrhopology in this field of study. The students will be aware of the intergenerational relationships and their negoations in culturel, social, and historical context. The course further develops the obligatory courses SANb1006, SANb1003 and SANb1004.
Learning outcomes
The students will be able to critically reflect the issue of life cycle and age in relation to other antropological topics such as power, reprezentations, and kinship.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Life cycle in antrhopology
  • 3. Ageing and antrhopology
  • 4. Intergenerational relation in anthropology
  • 5. Researching life cycle: challenges in the research with children
  • 6. Researching life cycle: challenges in the research with older people
  • 7. reading week
  • 8. Grandchildhood
  • 9. Sandwich generation
  • 10. Grandparenthood
  • 11. Ageing in cultrural context
  • 12. Workshop: cultural patterns of ageing in Czech context
Literature
  • SPYROU, Spyros. Disclosing childhoods : research and knowledge production for a critical childhood studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ix, 241. ISBN 9781137479037. info
  • Anthropological perspectives on care : work, kinship, and the life-course. Edited by Erdmute Alber - Heike Drotbohm. First published. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, x, 237. ISBN 9781137513434. info
  • DAVIES, Hayley. Understanding children's personal lives and relationships. First published. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, vii, 224. ISBN 9781137030061. info
  • Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts. Edited by Sara Arber - Virpi Timonen. First published. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2012, xiii, 270. ISBN 9781847429681. info
  • Family relationships in later life. Edited by Timothy H. Brubaker. 2nd ed. Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE, 1990, 1 online. ISBN 9781483325347. info
Teaching methods
lecture, seminar, group project, presentation, essay
Assessment methods
seminar discussion, group project and its presentation, final essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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