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Lecturer(s)
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Tlčimuková Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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- Introduction to the discipline of sociology (history, epistemology, topics, sociological imagination) - Levels of analysis in sociology (macro- and microsociology) - Classical sociological models of modern society (K. Marx, M. Weber, E. Durkheim) - Socialization and social institutions (self, status, role, agents of socialization, social groups, power, authority) - Stratification, social class and social inequalities (traditional societies, industrialization, social mobility) - Social interaction in everyday life (rules of social interaction, cultural and historical contexts) - Religion and sociological theory (secularization, pluralization, globalization) - Second modernity and risk society (U. Beck, A. Giddens, S. Lash) - Theory and methodology in sociological research (quantitative and qualitative approaches)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with multi-media resources (texts, internet, IT technologies)
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces sociology as a distinctive academic discipline with its own history, developments and paradigms. It provides an insight into classic sociological approaches and models of social reality. It focuses on the processes responsible for the rise of contemporary modern societies, such as industrialization, functional differentiation, social stratification, secularization, democratization, individualization, and globalization. Students will learn about the specifics of sociology as an academic discipline, its relationship to other academic disciplines, the relationship between theory and empirical research, the basic sociological approaches, models of society and corresponding sociological concepts. They will learn to understand and interpret sociological texts and apply basic sociological terminology.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment, Test, Interim evaluation
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Recommended literature
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