Course: Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups

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Course title Ethnicity and Ethnic Groups
Course code KSA/ESK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Topinka Daniel, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Ethnicity in social sciences 2. Ethnicity as an analytical category, ethnic classification 3. Conceptualization of ethnicity, social organization of cultural diversity 4. Relationship of ethnicity to other concepts 5. Primordialism and essentialism 6. Socially constructivist conception: constructing ethnic identities 7. Socially constructivist conception: collectivity and boundaries 8. Ethnicity and power 9. Ethnonacionalism 10. Ethnicity in regions 11. Ethnicity and religion 12. Critical reflection of ethnicity, limits of ethnicity

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to critically reflect the basic definition of ethnicity and its conceptualization in terms of its applicability as a scientific analytical category and to capture it in the process of revision, construction and questioning. Basic theoretical concepts of ethnicity (realism / essentialism, social construction, primordialism, etc.) will be presented.
Student will be able to describe, explain and critically reflect the analytical category of "ethnicity" and be able to present critical reflections of ethnicity in terms of practical applications.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Bubaker, R. (2006). Ethnicity without Groups.Cambridge: Harvard University Press,.
  • Castles, S. (2000). Ethnicity and Globalization. London: SAGE Publications..
  • Connor, W. (1994). Ethnonationalism The Quest for Understanding. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press..
  • Eriksen, T. H. (2012). Etnicita a nacionalismus. Praha: Slon..
  • Hobsbawm, E., Ranger, T. (1992). . The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: University Press.
  • HROCH, M. (2003). Pohledy na národ a nacionalismus. Praha.
  • Jakoubek, M. (2016). Teorie etnicity. Čítanka textů. Praha: Slon..
  • Jenkins, R. (1997). Rethinking Ethnicity. London: Sage..
  • Marada, R. (2006). Etnická různost a občanská jednota. Brno: CDK..
  • Sollors, W. (1996). Theories of Ethnicity. A Classical Reader. New York, New York University Press.
  • Topinka, D. (ed.). (2016). Muslimové v Česku. Etablování muslimů a islámu na veřejnosti..
  • Topinka, D. (2013). Ethno-national paradox: case of the area of Hlucin..
  • Topinka, D. (2015). Role religiozity a etnicity v procesu integrace muslimů - imigrantů do české společnosti. In Černý, Karel. Nad Evropou půlměsíc I: Muslimové v Česku a západních společnostech. Praha: Karolinum, s. 24 - 63..


Study plans that include the course
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