UVSRPEN012 Selected Chapters in History of Czech Sociology

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to present the peculiarities of Czech sociological tradition, put the Czech sociological thinking in international context and try to show what sociological archaism is and what on the other hand remains the permanent value; the attention is paid to connection of sociology and political regimes. The first part of the course is focused on principal features of development of Czech sociology, on its institutionalization and periodization of Czech sociological thinking. The second part introduces the important personalities and works of Czech and Slovak sociology in inter-war period and with former empiric researches of Czech society. The final part characterizes the post-war and current Czech sociology. It is devoted to the question of Marxist sociology, summarizes and compares the most prominent empiric researches of Czech society, presents some current Czech sociologists.
Syllabus
  • I. block . Principal features of development of Czech sociology
    1. Issue of small sociologies. The importance of study of history of Czech sociology (what about the classics on the threshold of a new millennium?); question of mutual influence of sociology and society
    2. Precursors of Czech sociology (philosophy of history, herbartism on Czech university, positivism in Czech thinking)
    3. Periodization of development of Czech sociology, outline of great topics, personalities, schools and trends, process if institutionalization of the branch
    II. block - Czech sociology between world wars
    4. T. G. Masaryk - main works and topics (Suicide, Czech question, Russian and Europe, Concrete logic, Masaryk´s reading of Simmel, Dilthey, criticism of Marx)
    5. Prague school - J. Kral and co-workers: Machotka, Ullrich, Mertl, Galla
    6. Brno school - I. A. Blaha, his students and colleagues. Researches of rural area and Brno
    7. Outside of schools: E. Chalupný - attempt of sociological synthesis, E. Beneš as sociologist. Composition company and issue of democracy of J. L. Fischer
    8. Sociology in Slovakia - hlasist movement, A. Štefánek, Hirner
    III. block - Czech sociology after World War II
    9. Interruption of sociological tradition after 1948. Marxist sociology and pre-war and post-war theories of socialism
    10. Survey of social structure of socialist society (Machonin´s research team). What about the inequality in classless society?
    11. Research of social transformation after 1989 and creation of new topics (e. g. gender, identity, social state). Great international comparative surveys. Creation of commercial sociology.
    12. Selected personalities of current Czech sociology (Petrusek, Mozny, Mateju, Keller)
Literature
    required literature
  • ZOUHAR, J., PAVLINCOVÁ, H., GABRIEL, J. Demokracie je diskuse... Česká filosofie 1918 - 1945. Olomouc, 2005. info
  • PECKA, E. Pozitivismus v české sociologii. České Budějovice: Vysoká škola evropských a regi, 2005. info
  • monotematická čísla Sociologického časopisu:. Sociologický časopis. roč. XL (č. 5). 2004. info
  • monotematická čísla Sociologického časopisu:. Sociologický časopis. roč. XXXVIII, (č. 1-2). 2002. info
  • monotematická čísla Sociologického časopisu:. Sociologický časopis. roč. IV (č.3). 1968. info
    recommended literature
  • ZOUHAR, J., PAVLINCOVÁ, H., GABRIEL, J. Spory v české filosofii mezi dvěma světovými válkami. Výbor textů. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003. info
  • ZOUHAR, J. Minulý konec století. Brno: Masarykova univerzita., 2000. info
  • Emanuel Chalupný, česká kultura, česká sociologie a Tábor. Praha: Filosofia, 1999. info
  • Havelka, M. (ed.). Spor o smysl českých dějin. Praha 1997. Praha: Torst, 1998. info
  • BLÁHA, I. A. Československá sociologie. Brno: Doplněk, 1997. info
  • SEDLÁK, J. Inocenc Arnošt Bláha. Brno: Universitas, 1995. info
  • NOVÝ, L. Filosof T. G. Masaryk . Problémové skicy. Brno: Doplněk., 1994. info
  • VALENTA, L. J. L. Fischer - osobnost, dílo, myšlenky. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého., 1990. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
The acquisition of credits is conditioned by reading of selected chapters from literature from the course, active participation in seminars, written review of one of the works of Czech sociological classics in the extent of 3-5 pages and its presentation in seminar.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2010, Summer 2011.
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