FSS:GEN149 Gender, Pop&Youth Culture - Course Information
GEN149 Gender, Popular Culture & Youth Culture
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr.art. Zuzana Kepplová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 15:15–16:45 P24
- 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 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Central European Studies Program (programme CST, CESP)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-HE)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-SO)
- Gender Studies (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Multidisciplinary studies at CEITEC (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies at Faculty of Social Studies (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies at Faculty of Arts (programme CST, KOS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HE)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-KS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-MS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PL)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SP)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-TV)
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- This course aims to provide students with some of the key concepts and discussions in the field of popular culture, subculture studies, youth and consumerism studies. The main objective is to suggest conceptual frameworks with the help of which students will be able to problematize not just the hegemonic popular culture but also seemingly resisting subcultures and liberating lifestyles. Moreover, they will be able to perceive how popular and youth cultures participate in formulating of gendered as well as classed, raced and sexed identities. Throughout the course, we will ask number of questions that help us utilize the texts to practice critical thinking. Ideally, we will be inspired to pose intriguing research questions for our future projects as sociologists, ethnographers, philosophers, journalists or simply curious humans.
- Syllabus (in Czech)
- 1) Immigrants, gangsters, prostitutes: new urban ethnographies I. 2) Immigrants, gangsters, prostitutes: new urban ethnographies II. 3) Youth as a metaphor of changes: popular culture and the body 4) Youth as a metaphor of changes: counterculture as a critique or disintegration of values? 5) Working-class boys: Reading resistance as a meaningful channel of communicating oppression 6) Working-class boys: geography and sociology of resistance 7) Music and style: spectacular gestures of (racial/gendered) resistance 8) From ‘common culture’ to creative economy: meaningful things and practices 9) Birth of ‘mass culture’ critique: reading the mind of ideology 10) Resistance through consumption and interrogating the ‘romance of resistance’ 11) Perverse consumerism and the global hegemony of pop 12) The right to consume: securing the ‘normal life’?
- Teaching methods (in Czech)
- seminar
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Students are expected to read the assigned texts (accessible in the IS), make notes and suggest points for discussion. Furthermore, they will submit two reaction papers (submission in the IS folder). One in the mid-semester (reading week) and the second one a week before the final session (week 11) so that we can discuss both papers at the final session. The instructions regarding the reaction papers will by sent be e-mail and discussed throughout the course.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: kredity_min(50),
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fss/spring2014/GEN149