FSS:SOC103 General sociological theory - Course Information
SOC103 Contemporary sociological theory
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Kubala (seminar tutor), Mgr. Ivana Rapoš Božič, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Jan Váňa, PhD (seminar tutor) - 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
- Mon 22. 2. to Mon 7. 3. Tue 11:30–13:00 Aula, Wed 9. 3. to Mon 16. 5. Tue 11:30–13:00 Aula; and Tue 8. 3. 17:00–18:30 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka, Tue 17. 5. 17:00–18:30 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
- Prerequisites
- Students can enroll this course after finishing courses SOC101, SOC104, SOC105
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HE) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-KS) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-MS) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PL) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-PS) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SO) (4)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-SP) (2)
- Sociology (programme FSS, B-TV) (2)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand and explain basic sociological paradigms and issues of contemporary sociological theory;
understand and explain key concepts and theoretical frameworks, which form the core of sociological paradigms and make them function as research programs for empirical analyses;
to distinguish between various interpretative capacities of sociological paradigms and their key concepts;
identify and formulate social problems by means of a sociological language and formulate these social problems in terms of sociological conceptual frames;
to interpret various types of empirical data in reference to broader social context. - Syllabus
- Introduction
- Macro and microsociology: everyday life and social interaction
- Society as an objective reality
- Society as a subjective reality
- Structure and action I: Habitus and social fields
- Structure and action II: Domination and symbolic power
- Structure and action III: The logic of symbolic action
- Institutional structures of modernity I. institutional differentiation
- Institutional structures of modernity II: rationalization and disciplination
- Modernity a crisis I: legitimacy crisis
- Modernity a crisis II: reflexive modernization
- Literature
- Etnická různost a občanská jednota. Edited by Radim Marada. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2006, 310 s. ISBN 8073251116. info
- HARRINGTON, Austin. Moderní sociální teorie : základní témata a myšlenkové proudy. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2006, 495 s. ISBN 8073670933. info
- FOUCAULT, Michel. Dohlížet a trestat :kniha o zrodu vězení. Translated by Čestmír Pelikán. Praha: Dauphin, 2000, 427 s. ISBN 80-86019-96-9. info
- HABERMAS, Jürgen. Problémy legitimity v pozdním kapitalismu. Translated by Alena Bakešová - Josef Velek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 2000, 187 s. ISBN 80-7007-130-3. info
- BELL, Daniel. Kulturní rozpory kapitalismu. Translated by Lukáš Gjurič. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1999, 335 s. ISBN 80-85850-84-2. info
- BERGER, Peter L. and Thomas LUCKMANN. Sociální konstrukce reality :pojednání o sociologii vědění. Translated by Jiří Svoboda. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 1999, 214 s. ISBN 80-85959-46-1. info
- BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 179 s. ISBN 8071845183. info
- LYOTARD, Jean François. O postmodernismu :postmoderno vysvětlované dětem : postmoderní situace. Translated by Jiří Pechar. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1993, 206 s. ISBN 80-7007-047-1. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, essays.
- Assessment methods
- short essays, written examination
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Teacher's information
- http://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2008/SOC103/index.qwarp
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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