Sociology 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
110SOC2 ZK 1 2T Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Markéta SEDLÁČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Markéta SEDLÁČKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course aim is to adopt an independent critical view of modern social issues and social analysis methodology tools (creating surveys, performing interviews, interpreting research results).

Mode of study

contact instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Oral exam over covered topics and reference to sociology texts read.

Course contents

Topics:

  1. Methodology Block III: Sociology research: types of reasearch, Particulars of market research and public opinion, selection procedures
  2. Methodology Block IV: Survey issues, Survey and Poll Techniques, Creating a survey and types of questions.
  3. Modernity and the Holocaust (Zygmunt Bauman)
  4. Post-industrial and Post-modern Society (Daniel Bell)
  5. Globalization (Anthony Giddens)
  6. Democracy and Civil Society (PŘ Czech Republic)

Recommended or required reading

Bauman, Zygmunt:Globalizace: důsledky pro člověka, Praha, Mladá fronta 2000.

Modernita a holocaust, Praha, SLON 2004.

Bell, Daniel: Kulturní rozpory kapitalismu. Praha, SLON 1999.

Brokl, L : Reprezentace zájmů v politickém systému České republiky. Praha, SLON 1997.

Disman, Miroslav: Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost. Praha, Karolinum 1993.

Giddens, Anthony: Důsledky modernity. Praha, SLON 2003.

Šubrt, Jiří a kol. autorů: Kapitoly ze sociologie veřejného mínění. Praha, Karolinum 1998

Velký sociologický slovník, kol. autorů, Praha, Karolinum 1996.

Assessment methods and criteria

activity in lectures

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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