SOC552 Arts and Money

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Blahoslav Rozbořil, 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 18:00–19:30 U32
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is focused on understanding how are various art forms distributed in modern society. At the end of the course students should be able to: apply sociological conceptions on questions of global art market; show and interpret discrepancy of culture and economy.
Syllabus
  • 1. Money and arts: social history (Bätschman, Valenze) 2. Critical perspective (Marx, Weber, Wood) 3. Anthropological perspective (Mauss, Durkheim) 4. Philosophy of money (Simmel) 5. Economy of symbolic holdings 6. Fluid trust (Giddens, Bauman, Etzioni) 7. –reading week- 8. Semiotics of money (Luhmann, Baudrillard) 9. Art market constitution (Zembylas) 10. Spirituality – professionalism (Wuthnow) 11. Economic position of producent (Abbing) 12. Costs and contents (Velthius, Zelizer) 13. Global art market (Stallabrass, Rectanus)
Literature
    required literature
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 179 s. ISBN 8071845183. info
  • MAUSS, Marcel. Esej o daru, podobě a důvodech směny v archaických společnostech. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1999, 201 s. ISBN 80-85850-77-X. info
  • SIMMEL, Georg. Peníze v moderní kultuře a jiné eseje. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1997, 206 s. ISBN 80-85850-50-8. info
    recommended literature
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. The rules of art : genesis and structure of the literary field. Translated by Susan Emanuel. First published. Cambridge: Polity, 1996, xviii, 410. ISBN 9780745611525. info
  • SIMMEL, Georg. The philosophy of money. Translated by Kaethe Mengelberg - T. B. Bottomore - David Frisby. 2nd enlarged ed. London: Routledge, 1990, xlii, 537. ISBN 0415046416. info
  • The social life of things :commodities in cultural perspective. Edited by Arjun Appadurai. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, xiv, 329 s. ISBN 0-521-35726-8. info
  • HARRINGTON, Austin. Art and social theory : sociological arguments in aesthetics. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004, vii, 237. ISBN 0745630391. info
  • The sociology of art : a reader. Edited by Jeremy Tanner. New York: Routledge, 2003, xi, 265. ISBN 0415308836. info
  • VALENZE, Deborah M. The social life of money in the English past. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, xv, 308. ISBN 0521617804. info
  • ETZIONI, Amitai. Morální dimenze ekonomiky : The moral dimension : Toward a new economics (orig.). Translated by Karel Riegel. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 24, 243 a. ISBN 80-85865-19-X. info
  • ZELIZER, Viviana A. Rotman. The social meaning of money. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997, xi, 286. ISBN 0691048215. URL info
  • POLANYI, Karl. Velká transformace. Translated by Jiří Svoboda. 1. vyd. Brno: CDK (Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury), 2006, 299 s. ISBN 8073250969. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, readings.
Assessment methods
Final written test. Multiple-choice and open questions.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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