Course: Theory of Social Deviations

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Course title Theory of Social Deviations
Course code KPG/BPTSD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Čech Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic terminology - social deviations, social pathology, social norms, labelling approach, Pygmalion effect, stigmatization. Mechanisms of social control, socialisation processes disturbances. Social deviations theories.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
Problems of social deviations in general and with consequences of negative social deviations for individuals and society. In seminars will be analysed and discussed theoretical questions of sociology of social deviations. Explication of basic notions. Social-pathological problems in writings of Czech sociologists.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Essay, Student performance, Seminar Work

Work (an essay on a selected social deviant phenomenon - the application of theoretical issues of sociology of social deviation and analysis of selected passages from the recommended literature and a case study of one of the areas of problematic behaviour) of at least 4 standard pages and 3 different sources of information.
Recommended literature
  • Bláha, I. A. (1968). Sociologie. Praha.
  • Hrčka, M. (2001). Sociální deviace. Praha, Sociální nakladatelství.
  • Jedlička, R., Klíma, P., Koťa, J. a kol. (2004). Děti a mládež v obtížných životních situacích. Nové pohledy na problematiku životních krizí, deviací a úlohu pomáhajících profesí.. Praha: Themis.
  • Klimentová, E., Kliment, P. (2002). Sociální deviace. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého OLomouc.
  • Munková, G. (2001). Sociální deviace. Praha.
  • Skopalová, J. (2000). Vybrané kapitoly ze sociálních deviací (studijní text k distančnímu studiu). Olomouc.
  • Sýkorová, K., Klimentová, E., Kliment, P., Fafejta, M., Skopalová, J. (2006). Vybrané kapitoly ze sociálních deviací (studijní text k distančnímu studiu). Olomouc.
  • Typovská, L., Skopalová, J., Dopita, M. (2000). Vybrané problémy současné společnosti (studijní text k distančnímu studiu). Olomouc.


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