Course: Sociology of Deviant Behavior

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Course title Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Course code KSS/DEVZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Bárdy Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
(1) introduction to the object, elementary concepts and terms (2-3) sociological and non-sociological approaches to the study of deviant behaviour (4) pozitivist theories of deviant behaviour (5-6) subcultural theories of deviant behaviour (7) theory of deference (8) labelling theories (9) secondary deviance (10-11) formal and informal social control (12-13) role of the state in the production and repression of deviant behaviour

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Individual study, Self-study of literature, Seminar
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 26 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 55 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to use of sociological terminology.
to use of sociological methodology.
Skills
to reading in English.
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to enumerate and describe contemporary and historical approaches to the study of social deviance.
Skills
to critically evaluate approaches to the study of social deviation.
to design a research project.
to choose adequate methods of data collection and analysis.
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
Self-study of literature
Individual study
Skills
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
Self-study of literature
Individual study
Competences
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Project
Skills
Combined exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Project
Competences
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Anderson, Elijah. Code of the street : Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. New York : W.W.Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-32078-2.
  • Becker, Howard. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: Free Press, 1964.
  • Best, Joel. Deviance: Career of a Concept. Belmont: Wadsworth / Thompson Learning, 2004.
  • Cohen, Albert. Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1955.
  • Cohen, Stanley. Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification. Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press and Blackwell Publishers, 1985.
  • Erikson, Kai. Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: Wiley, 1966.
  • Ferrel, Jeff; Keith Hayward; Wayne Morrison; Mike Presdee. Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: Glasshouse Press, 2004.
  • Foucault, Michel. Dohlížet a trestat : kniha o zrodu vězení. Praha : Dauphin, 2000. ISBN 80-86019-96-9.
  • Freilich, Morris; Douglas Raybeck; Joel Savishinsky. Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1991.
  • Garland, David. The culture of control : crime and social order in contemporary society. Oxford : Oxford Univerzity Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-925802-3.
  • Goffman, Erving. Stigma : poznámky k problému zvládání narušené identity. Vyd. 1. Praha : Sociologické nakladatelství, 2003. ISBN 80-86429-21-0.
  • Madison, D. Soyini. Critical ethnography : method, ethics, and performance. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2005. ISBN 0-7619-2916-9.
  • Maguire, Mike; Morgan, Rod; Reiner, Robert. The Oxford handbook of criminology. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-924937-7.
  • Noaks, Lesley; Wincup, Emma. Criminological research : understanding qualitative methods. London : SAGE Publications, 2004. ISBN 0-7619-7407-5.
  • Parnell, Philip; Stephanie C. Kane. Crime´s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime. New York and Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.


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