USESEA043 Sociology and Politics in Central Europe

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Richard Przeczek (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Prerequisites
Expert Knowledge:
Students will demonstrate a good awareness of the main forms of permeation of social science and political discourses in Central Europe in the 20th century. They will also demonstrate deeper knowledge of migrations in Central Europe as well as the concepts of ideas that contributed to the formation of Central European politics.
Expert Skills:
Students should be able to discern some remaining theoretical concepts in Central European politics, search for information in professional texts written in a foreign language, and to write a professional presentation based on their research.
General Competency:
To assess current political processes from the point of view of social science concepts.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to familiarize students with sociology in Central Europe at the background of political developments in Central European space. Attention is paid to the correlation between sociology and political regimes, and their changes. The first part of the programme is focused on the basic characteristics of the development of Central European sociology, its institutionalization and periodization of Central European sociological thinking in correlation to political changes in Central Europe in the 20th century. The second block pays attention to specific intellectual migrations in Central European space with special respect to politically motivated immigration and emmigration in Central European space. The third block deals in greater detail with the development of relations between socilology and politics in Central Europe, whilst the the lectures are focused on the countries of the Visegrad Four.
Syllabus
  • Block I.
    1. Sociology in politics and politics in sociology.
    2. Political sociology as a sociological reflection of politics.
    3. The conditions of the origins of sociology in Central Europe and the boundaries of Central Europe.
    4. Periodization of the development of Central European sociology and its relation to political transformations.
    5. The overview of major themes, personalities, schools and movements, the proces of institutionalization of the field of study.
    Block II.
    6. Intellectual migration in Central Europe in the 20th century.
    7. Politically motivated intellectual emmigration and immigration from and to Central Europe.
    Block III.
    8. Polish sociology and politics.
    9. Czech sociology and politics.
    10. Slovak sociology and politics.
    11. Hungarian sociology and politics.
    12. Sociology and politics in other Central European countries.
Literature
    required literature
  • JANÁK, D. a kol. Vybrané kapitoly z dějin středoevropské sociologie. Opava: Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2013. info
  • GOLENKOVA, E. T. a NARBUT, H. P. Istorija sociologičeskoj mysli v stranach centralnoj i vostočnoj Jevropy. Moskva: Izdatelstvo Rossijskogo universiteta dru, 2003. info
  • KEEN, M. F. a MUCHA, J. L. (eds.). Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe. Transformation at the Dawn of a New Millenium. Praeger: Westport, Connecticut, 2003. ISBN 0313318026. info
    recommended literature
  • NEŠPOR, Z. R. Republika sociologů. Zlatá éra české sociologie v meziválečném období a krátce po druhé světové válce. Praha: Scriptorium, 2011. ISBN 978-80-87271-48-3. info
  • MUCHA, J. Sociology in Eastern Europe or East European Sociology: Historical and Present. roč. 41, č. 6, s. 507-525. Sociologia - Slovak Sociological Review, 2009. info
  • HUSZÁR, T. The history of modern sociology in Hungary. In: International handbook of contemporary developements in sociology. Westport, connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0313267197. 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
To give a presentation on one of the important foreign representatives of sociological thinking in Central Europe.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2018, Summer 2019.
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