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Lecturer(s)
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Kubátová Helena, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Karger Tomáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Part 1 - Conflict sociology - Sociology of rationality - Durkheimian sociology - Interactionist sociology Part 2 Auguste Comte: Positivism, social statics and dynamics - Basic directions of naturalistic sociology: the biological evolutionism, Social Darwinism - Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism, society as an organism - Basic directions of psychologism in sociology: psychological evolutionism, instinctivism, psychology of crowd, theory of imitation - Karl Marx: critique of capitalism and alienation of man, the capitalist mode of production - Vilfredo Pareto: sociology as a logical - experimental science, the theory of equilibrium - Émile Durkheim: sociologism, social phenomenon, social solidarity - Sociology of forms: Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tönnies - Max Weber: understanding sociology, social action - The Chicago School of Sociology: The founders of American sociology (L. F Ward , W. G Sumner, A. W Small , F. H Giddings) - Beginning of interactionism (Ch. H. Cooley, W. I Thomas, F. Znaniecki, G. H Mead, H. Blumer) - Karl Mannheim: analysis of ideology - Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas) - Alfred Schütz: phenomenological sociology and everyday world; Phenomenological sociology after A. Schütz; (Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman); Peter L. Berger a Thomas Luckmann: social construction of reality - Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton: structural functionalism - Niklas Luhmann: functionalist structuralism - Ralf Dahrendorf: class conflict, conflict concerning the distribution of life chances - The concept of a conflict in American sociology (Lewis Coser, Randall Collins) - Pierre Bourdieu: reproduction of social inequality, social space model - Anthony Giddens: the theory of structuration, the policy of the third way - Exchange theory and rational choice theory; postmodernism
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
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The aim is to examine the knowledge of given sociological approaches in terms of their assumptions, concepts and propositions, while also accounting for their historical development in theories of particular authors.
At the state final exam student must demonstrate the following competences: Students can define different ways of finding answers to the basic sociological questions. Students can explain and compare the options and evaluate them. Students define and interpret the basic sociological theories of the 19th and 20th centuries. Students are able to explain the assumptions of sociological approaches, define their basic concepts, introduce relevant authors and describe their theories. Students are able to apply theoretical knowledge to the practical problems of modern society. Students are able to compare perspectives of different sociological approaches toward a given social phenomenon. Students are able to assess practical solutions to problems using theoretical knowledge.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam
Students can define different ways of finding answers to the basic sociological questions. Students can explain and compare the options and evaluate them. Students define and interpret the basic sociological theories of the 19th and 20th centuries. Students are able to explain the assumptions of sociological approaches, define their basic concepts, introduce relevant authors and describe their theories. Students are able to apply theoretical knowledge to the practical problems of modern society. Students are able to compare perspectives of different sociological approaches toward a given social phenomenon. Students are able to assess practical solutions to problems using theoretical knowledge.
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Recommended literature
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Keller, J. O povaze sociální reality. Brno, 1987.
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Kubátová H. (2009). Sociologie. Olomouc, UP.
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Kubátová H., Znebejánek, F. (2008). Základy sociologie. Olomouc, UP.
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MURPHY, R. F. Úvod do kulturní a sociální antropologie. Praha. Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2001..
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