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Lecturer(s)
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Grosová Andrea Dagmar, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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- applied sociology - sociological approaches focusing on social problems (family, domestic violance, social deviance, the aging of the population) - the question of choice of the research problem in social and political context - a question of research design - how to choose the appropriate one - the combination of research methods
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Students' portfolio, Task-based study method, Textual studies, Seminar
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 40 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 21 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| to be able to read texts in English. |
| to describe and explain basic sociological theorie. |
| Skills |
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| to produce a formally acceptable professional output. |
| to actively use foreign databases of professional journals. |
| to use adequate terms corresponding to the terminology of the field in Czech and English. |
| Competences |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to distiguish advantages and disadvantages related to the combination of various research methods. |
| to use critical reading of empirical studies and identify their strengths and weaknesses. |
| to discuss possible contributions of selected empirical studies for the development of the sociological knowledge . |
| to discuss about possible political and social consequences of selected sociological studies. |
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| to identify the motivation to choose a given research problem . |
| to put the selected methodology to the context of wider academic debates about social circumstances. |
| to critically assess the accuracy of the research design of selected empirical studies. |
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| teaching methods |
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| Seminar |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
| Students' portfolio |
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| Seminar |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
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| Task-based study method |
| Students' portfolio |
| assessment methods |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Seminar work |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Seminar work |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Competences |
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| Combined exam |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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Calhoun, Craig. Contemporary sociological theory. Oxford : Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 0-631-21350-3.
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Elliott, Anthony; Ray, Larry J. Key contemporary social theorists. Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-631-21972-2.
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Garner, Roberta. Social theory. volume II, power and identity in the global era, a reader. Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2004. ISBN 1-55111-664-2.
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Lemert, Charles. Social theory : the multicultural and classic readings. Boulder : Westview Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8133-4217-1.
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Newman, David M. Sociology : exploring the architecture of everyday life. 5th ed. Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7619-8826-2.
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Ritzer, George; Goodman, Douglas J. Sociological theory. Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN 007-123267-2.
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Šubrt, Jiří. Postavy a problémy soudobé teoretické sociologie : sociologické teorie druhé poloviny 20. století. Vyd. 1. Praha : ISV nakladatelství, 2001. ISBN 80-85866-77-3.
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Treibel, Annette. Einführung in soziologische Theorien der Gegenwart. 6. Aufl. Wiesbaden VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden, 2004. ISBN 3-8252-8070-5.
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