SOC562 Social Life of Things: Material Culture and Consumption

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2017
Rozsah
1/1/0. 10 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
St 8:00–9:30 M117
Předpoklady
Students have to be able to read, write and participate in classes in English: They are expected to read 25 pages of academic text in English per week, write assignments and essays, and participate in discussions in English.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 20 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/20, pouze zareg.: 0/20, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/20
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course will examine anthropological approaches to material culture and consumption: the practices, relations, and rituals through which things – from houses, toys and clothing to shell valuables or money – act and become meaningful, how objects mediate social relationships — and ultimately how inanimate objects can be read as having a form of subjectivity and agency of their own.
Výstupy z učení
By the end of the semester, students should be able to:
- Define and discuss various anthropological approaches to material culture and consumption;
- Design a research methodology for studying material culture
Osnova
  • 1. Fetishizing commodities, fetishizing things
  • 2. Gifts and commodities in Consumer Society: Things as alienable and inalienable
  • 3. Biographies of things; things and human biographies: Social lives of things
  • 4. Consumption and social differentiation: things as status symbols, things as constituting class
  • 5. Consumption and identity, consumption and relations: How things make people
  • 6. Practices of consumption: material culture and objectification
  • 7. Workshop: Hundred objects of contemporary world
  • 8. Agency of things: who can be an agent?
  • 9. Things as concepts: relative ontologies
  • 10. Presentations of final essays
  • 11. Presentations of final essays
Literatura
  • Woodward, Ian. 2007. Understanding Material Culture. London: SAGE Publications.
Výukové metody
lectures; class discussions; reading; workhops with objects; writing assignments, writing projects
Metody hodnocení
active participation at discussion; three written assignments; final essay
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Actual syllabus can be find in the study materials in IS.
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2019.