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Last update: Mgr. Jitka Wirthová, Ph.D. (13.09.2022)
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Last update: Mgr. Jitka Wirthová, Ph.D. (13.09.2022)
1. Porozumět cílům, způsobům práce a možnostem sociologie 2. Rozvíjet schopnost používat vybrané sociologické pojmy a vztahovat je k pozorované skutečnosti 3. Zvládnout základy intelektuální práce – aktivní četba odborné literatury, diskuze a prezentace na seminářích a spolupráce na výsledné seminární práci |
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Last update: Mgr. Jitka Wirthová, Ph.D. (13.09.2022)
The course is completed with "zápočet" Žápočet” is decided by the seminar leader. In order to complete the course successfully, it is necessary to: 1. Actively participate in seminars (one unexcused absence is allowed): subject to change depending on safety measures related to COVID-19 2. Weekly tasks for Sociological Diaries (nine tasks) being accepted 3. Participate in a mini-conference and cooperate in a group 4. Seminar essay (2500-3000 words) being accepted Evaluation Evaluation of individual tasks is verbal (in the form of a comment in Moodle or communicated at a seminar). If the weekly task or seminar essay is not accepted, the student must correct it according to the instructions of the seminar leaders and deliver it by the specified deadline. The student is entitled to two corrections; the third non-acceptance of any weekly task or seminar essay leads to no credit. Late submissions do not count. Students are evaluated according to the following criteria: creativity and thoroughness in writing their Sociological Diary, the ability to respond to the suggestions of seminar leaders and presenters, active participation in seminar discussions and the ability to sociologically interpret information from the diaries in the seminar essay. Deadlines for submission of weekly assignments 1. Students submit weekly assignments for the Sociological Diary every Sunday by 12:00 to the appropriate folder in Moodle. 2. Assignments for the next week will be available in Moodle every Sunday from 12:00. 3. The deadline for the submission of the final seminar essay during the examination period will be specified by the seminar leader. |
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Last update: Mgr. Jitka Wirthová, Ph.D. (14.09.2023)
Lecture 1: Thinking sociologically - an introduction Recommended sources: · Bauman, Zygmunt. 2012. This Is Not a Diary. Polity. · A project of American sociologist Andrew Abbott „Barabara Celarent: Varieties of Social Imagination“ (http://home.uchicago.edu/~aabbott/barbara.html) · The Sociological Review Magazine (https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/) Lecture 2. Academic work mandatory: · https://fsv.cuni.cz/en/study/guides-and-manuals/bibliographic-citation-guide lecture 3: University mandatory: · Shils, Edward. 1992. “Points of Departure: The Idea of the University: Obstacles and Opportunities in Contemporary Societies.” Minerva 30(2):301–13. doi: 10.1007/BF01096887. · Delanty, Gerard (1998) “The Idea of the University in the Global Era: From Knowledge as an End to the End of Knowledge?” Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy 12(1):3–25. doi: 10.1080/02691729808578865. recommended: · Burrawoy. „The public university – a battleground for real utopias“ (dostupné na: http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/) · Delanty, Gerard (2001) Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society. SRHE, Open University Press. Lecture 4: Sociology mandatory: Merton, R. K. (1949) “The self-fulfilling prophecy” In: Merton, Robert K. (1968) Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: The Free Press p. 475. recommended: Bauman, Z., Tim May (2019) Thinking Sociologically, 3rd Edition. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-95998-5 Přednáška 5: Sociologické pojetí modernity mandatory: · Milgram, Stanley (1974) Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New York: Harper & Row recommended: Přednáška 6: Postkolonialismus mandatory:
Recommended readings to the whole course: · Bauman, Zygmunt (2013) The Individualized Society. John Wiley and Sons. · Giddens, Anthony (1997) The Consequence of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press; Blackwell Publishing. · Matthewman, Steve, and Kate Huppatz (2020) “A Sociology of Covid-19.” Journal of Sociology. doi: 10.1177/1440783320939416. · Mills, C. Wright (2000) “Intellectual craftsmanship“ in: Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. 1st 1959. New York: Oxford University Press. · Ritzer, George (2020) The McDonaldization of Society: Into the Digital Age Tenth Edition. SAGE. · Simmel, Georg (1991) “Money in Modern Culture.” Theory, Culture & Society 8(3):17–31. doi: 10.1177/026327691008003002. |