SOCb2505 Sociology of Communism

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2025
Rozsah
1/1/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. et Mgr. Gábor Oláh, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. et Mgr. Gábor Oláh, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Předpoklady
! SOC0103 Sociology of Communism
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 25 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/25, pouze zareg.: 0/25, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/25
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 9 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This course focuses primarily to the sociological interpretation of everyday life in socialism. The course will be a mix of 1) theoretical approaches to the sociology/anthropology of everyday life (from Georg Simmel, through Walter Benjamin and Erving Goffmann to Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certau) applied to the socialist everyday. Fuirthermore practical case studies highlighting particular topics such as work, living, everyday things, games, art, etc. Also we will be discussing communism as ideology, as movement, and as social reality. We will also focus on free time by playing the socialist version of Monopoly. There are planned two excursions and guest lecturers.
Výstupy z učení
By the end of the course students should be able to:
Orient in the theoretical approaches to the sociology of everyday life
Apply cultural anthropological approaches in various fields of post-socialist societies.
Conduct a brief ethnographic research on the observable cultural practices in a post-socialist society.
Identify in the present the consequences of socialist and post-socialist transformation.
Osnova
  • Topics that we will discuss:
  • Communism as ideology
  • Communism as movement
  • Communism as social reality
  • Sociology of everyday life
  • Political and cultural geography of East-Central Europe
  • What Was Socialism? Historical Development and Economic Conceptualizations
  • Consuption: food, music, movies
  • Identity, representations, politics and opposition
  • Art in communism - excursion to Moravian gallery
  • Nationalism in Communism
  • Criminality and organized crime
  • Memory and ostaliga
  • Entertainment in communism: Sport, music, games ("Gazdálkodj okosan" the socialist version of Monopoly in Hungary)
  • Free time, holydays and festivities - collective excersises and marches, Labor day, etc.
  • Architecture and housing - excursion to Brno Housing estate
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • HIGHMORE, Ben. Everyday life and cultural theory : an introduction. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2002, viii, 200. ISBN 0415223032. info
  • The everyday life reader. Edited by Ben Highmore. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2002, xvi, 373 s. ISBN 0-415-23025-X. info
    doporučená literatura
  • SZCZERBIAK, Aleks. Politicising the communist past : the politics of truth revelation in post-communist Poland. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, viii, 198. ISBN 9781138824737. info
  • MOLLOY, Peter. The lost world of communism : an oral history of daily life behind the iron curtain. London: BBC Books, 2016, 314 stran. ISBN 9781785940255. info
  • Food & everyday life in the postsocialist world. Edited by Elizabeth C. Dunn - Marion Nestle - Melissa L. Caldwell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009, xiv, 231. ISBN 9780253221391. info
Výukové metody
We count on reading papers prior to the class that will be discussed in the class.
There will be presentations be the lecturers
and class discussions.
there are also planned two excursions (Moravian Gallery and Brno housing estate)
Metody hodnocení
Particular activities of students will be evaluated as follows:
30% - reading, discussion papers and
20% - class participation
50 % - academic paper
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2020, jaro 2021, jaro 2022, jaro 2023, jaro 2024.