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Lecturer(s)
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Popelka Miroslav, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Douša Miloslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction. Cultural coding of social change as a historical process and sociological imagination. 2. The question of the research method SH (consensual and conflict paradigm). How does sociology evaluate the importance of SH? 3. SH between modernity and late modernity. 4. Ethics of social conflict. 5. M. Foucault, J. Habermas, A. Honneth: limits and perspectives of critical theory of SH. Social movements and recognition theory. 6. SH and modernity. The question of social change. 7. Peaceful SH. Human Rights Movement. 8. Ecological movements. 9. Global and glocalized society and activities of SH. 10. From institution to movement, from movement to institution. 11. Rhetoric, discourse practice SH. 12. SH and ideology. 13. The issue of social mobilization and mobility of actors.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Individual study, Self-study of literature, Seminar
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 50 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 8 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 46 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to describe and explain basic sociological theories. |
| to describe the formation of sociological perspectives on the study of society. |
| to characterize the basic findings from empirical research. |
| to list and describe the basic developmental stages of the formation of Western societies. |
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| to produce a formally acceptable professional output. |
| to actively use foreign databases of professional journals. |
| to independently interpret knowledge from different subfields of sociology. |
| to use adequate terms corresponding to the terminology of the field in Czech and English. |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to distinguish between the changing definitions of social change and social movements. |
| to interpret theoretical models interpreting social change and social movements. |
| to characterize the different types of conflicts between theories explaining what social change is. |
| to list and characterize the individual consequences of the development of modern societies in relation to social change. |
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| to classify different types of theoretical paradigms explaining what social change and social movements are. |
| to demonstrate independently specific conflict approaches in theories and empirical knowledge about social change and its role in changing societies. |
| to evaluate independently critically sociological concepts of social change and social movements. |
| to choose independently an appropriate theoretical and methodological approach for the analysis of social change and social movements. |
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Recommended literature
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Bauman, Zygmunt. Globalization : the human consequences. Cambridge : Polity, 1998. ISBN 0-7456-2013-2.
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Cobban, Alfred. A history of modern France. v. 1, Old régime and revolution 1715-1799. London : Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-14-013825-0.
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Cobban, Alfred. The social interpretation of the French revolution. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-66767-4.
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Elias, Norbert. O procesu civilizace : sociogenetické a psychogenetické studie. I., Proměny chování světských horních vrstev na Západě. Praha : Argo, 2006. ISBN 80-7203-838-9.
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Friedman, Jonathan. Cultural identity and global process. London : SAGE Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-8039-8638-6.
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Giugni, M., McAdam, D., Tilly, Ch. (eds.). How Social Movements Matter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
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Guidry, J. A., Kennedy, M.D., Zald, N. (eds.). Globalization and Social Movements: Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere. University of Michigan Press, 2000.
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Harrington, Austin. Moderní sociální teorie : základní témata a myšlenkové proudy. Praha : Portál, 2006. ISBN 80-7367-093-3.
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Hegedus, Z. Social Movements and Social Change in Self-Creative Society: New Civil Initiatives in International Arena. International Sociology, 4 (1), s. 19-36, 1989.
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Luker, Kristin. Abortion and the politics of motherhood. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1985. ISBN 0-520-05597-7.
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Lužný, D. Hledání ztracené jednoty. Brno: MU, 2005.
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McMichael, P. Development and social change: a global perspective (sociology for a new century). Pine Forge Press . 1996.. London, 1996.
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Porta, D.D. a Dani, M. Social Movements. An Introduction. Blackwell Publishing, 1999.
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Skocpol, Theda. Vision and method in historical sociology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-521-29724-9.
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Strasser, H. a Randall, S. C. An Introduction Theories of Social Change. London: Routledge, 1981.
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Stryker, S., Owens, T.J., White, R.W. (eds.). Self, Identity, and Social Movements. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
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Tilly, Charles. Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-70153-2.
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Tilly, Charles. Politika kolektivního násilí. Praha : Sociologické nakladatelství, 2006. ISBN 80-86429-60-1.
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