Sociology of Dance 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
107SOD1 credit 3 1 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 66 to 81 hours of self-study English winter

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Předmět zajišťuje Dance Department

Contents

Learning objective:

The aim of the course is to develop dance theoretical thinking. It takes the form of a lecture, which is designed to introduce the basic concepts, problems and methods of sociology and their application to the study of dance. It is primarily concerned with the understanding of dance as social action/conduct/communication and the resulting new perspectives on dance as part of human culture and society. In the first semester, the course includes a historical overview of the development of the understanding of dance as a part of society/culture in the works of sociologists, the problems of establishing the sociology of dance as a specific discipline and its characteristics.

Thematic areas:

  1. Sociology as a discipline, its historical development and formation, personalities
  2. Sociological concepts and their content, topics and methods of sociological research
  3. Sociology of the body and sociology of art as the basis for the sociology of dance
  4. An overview of sociologically conceived theoretical reflections on dance and the beginnings of the formation of dance sociology
  5. Characteristics of the sociology of dance, specific problems, issues and approaches; Peter Brinson: Scholastic Tasks of a Sociology of Dance; Helen Thomas: Dance, Modernity and Culture
  6. The relationship between dance and music from a sociological perspective

Learning outcomes

Students understand the approaches, theoretical concepts and methods of sociology and their use in the study of dance; expanding theoretical education, developing the ability to critically reflect on dance as a cultural and social phenomenon.

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

Required reading:

BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Thinking Sociologically. An Introduction for Everyone. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990. ISBN 0-631-16361-1.

BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Postmodernity and its Discontents. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7456-1790-5.

GIDDENS, Anthony. Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990. ISBN 0-7456-0923-6.

BRINSON, Peter. Scholastic Tasks of a Sociology of Dance I and II. Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research 1, 1983, č. 1, s. 100-107; č. 2, s. 59-68. ISSN 0264-2875.

Recommended reading:

BEK, Mikuláš. Konzervatoř Evropy? K sociologii české hudebnosti. Praha: KLP - Koniasch Latin Press, 2003. ISBN 80-85917-99-8.

BEK, Mikuláš. Vybrané problémy hudební sociologie. Olomouc: Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 1993. ISBN 80-7067-318-4.

BÖHME, Fritz. Materialien zu einer soziologischen Untersuchung des künstlerischen Tanzes. Ethos 1, 1925/26, s. 274-293.

BUNZEL, Joseph Hans. Sociology of Dance. In: CHUJOY, Anatole, ed. The Dance Encyclopedia. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1949.

GIDDENS, Anthony. Sociologie. Praha: Argo, 1999. ISBN: 80-7203-124-4.

HABERMAS, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Cambridge: Polity, 1989. ISBN 0-7465-0274-6.

INGLIS, David a HUGHSON, John, eds. The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. ISBN 978-0333962664.

JUNK, Victor. 11. Kapitel. Tanzforschung und Soziologie. In: JUNK, Victor. Grundlegung der Tanzwissenschaft. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Elisabeth Wamlek-Junk. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms Verlag, 1990. s. 215-220. ISBN 978-3487093390.

SCOTT, Sue a MORGAN, David, eds. Body Matters. Essays On The Sociology Of The Body. London; Washington, D.C.: Falmer Press, 1993. ISBN 978-1850009429.

SPENCER, Herbert. Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative. Londýn: Longman & Robert, 1901.

THOMAS, Helen. Dance, Modernity and Culture. Explorations in the Sociology of Dance. Londýn; New York: Routledge, 1993. ISBN 978-0415087933.

TURNER, Bryan. The Body and Society. Explorations in Social Theory. London: Sage Publications Inc, 2008. ISBN 978-1412929868.

Evaluation methods and criteria

A paper on an assigned text dealing with the sociology of dance.

Other requirements: attendance of at least 75%, study of required literature.

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