SOC268 Materiality and Meaning in Urban Contexts:Contemporary Sociological

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 12 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dominik Bartmanski, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Zuzana Révészová (assistant)
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 12:00–13:30 U35
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOC101 Introduction to Sociology && SOC103 General sociological theory
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
Syllabus
  • The course presents selected social scientific discourses on city and material culture. The basis of the selection is the theoretical relevance and broadly conceived cultural approach to materiality and the city. In this sense the majority of the articles focus less on what cities do or do not, and even less on what they should do or look like. Rather, the emphasis is on what they mean to whom, what is the cultural logic of place-making meanings, and how sociologists can go about unravelling these meaning structures. The research frameworks developed within the so called material culture studies are introduced as analytical grid through which to understand city as a cultural phenomenon.
Literature
  • BARTMANSKI, Dominik Maksymilian. The liminal Cityscape: Post-Communist Warsaw as Collective Representation. In Chasing Warsaw. Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990. frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2012, p. 133-160. Volume 15. ISBN 978-3-593-39778-8. info
  • DUNEIER, Mitchell. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, 383 s. ISBN 9780374527259. info
  • URRY, John. Consuming places. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 1995, 257 s. ISBN 0415113113. info
  • HANNERZ, Ulf. Cultural complexity : studies in the social organization of meaning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992, ix, 347. ISBN 0231076231. info
Assessment methods
1. The final essay = 50% 2. Participation in seminar discussions = 50% 1. The final essay has to be between 3000–4000 words long. The topic should connect at least two weekly themes. The deadline: Friday, May 31, 2013. 2. Participation in the seminar discussion is an essential part of your final grade. It is also an essential part of your intellectual development. Take it seriously. And enjoy it! You get as much out of the course as you put into it.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014.
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