USESEC016 Social Thought, Structure and Transformation in Visegrad Countries

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
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 course comprises two parts. The first part provides the elementary findings in the area of general sociological theory. It proceeds from the basement of classical as well as modern sociological thinking and deals with descriptions and analysis of social environment, interhuman interaction, human behaviour and act and communication. The second part is aimed at sociological concept of social structure in the context of community of central Europe. Thematically, it represents wide view, from changes of social structure (social stratification and deepening social inequality), issue of social cohesion, processes of integration and differentiation of central European communities, consensus and conflict, change of attitudes and consumer patterns up to questions of new social movements, life values, issue of ethnic groups or integration of the Czech republic to European structures.
Syllabus
  • I. block: Basic characteristics of central European social thinking
    1.Introduction - central European society in the light of sociology and sociological research of social structure
    2.Key personalities of social thinking in CE - Vienna as a centre of cognition
    3. Key personalities of social thinking in Visegrad countries - Poland, Slovakia, Hungary
    4.Czech sociology in European and world context
    II. block: Social structure of central European societies
    5. Industrial revolution and demographical changes of central European societies
    6. Social structure of socialist society in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary
    7.Issue of social transformation after 1989 in Visegrad countries
    8. Development of social structure of Czech society from 1989 till present day
    9. Changes, difficulties and perspectives of social state in CE
    10. Integration efforts in CE
    11. Directions and causes of migration in CE, centres and peripheries of CE area
    12. Central Europe from the view of study of social identities
Literature
    required literature
  • JANÁK, D. a kolektiv. Počátky sociologie ve střední Evropě. Studie o formování sociologie jako vědy v Polsku, českých zemích, na Slovensku a v Maďarsku. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7419-176-3. info
  • Machonin, P. Česká společnost a sociologické poznání : (problémy společenské transformace a modernizace od poloviny šedesátých let 20. století do současnosti). Praha : ISV, 2005. ISBN 80-85850-04-4. info
  • Křen, Jan. Dvě století střední Evropy. Praha: Argo, 2005. info
    recommended literature
  • MOŽNÝ, I. Proč tak snadno? Některé rodinné důvody sametové revoluce: sociologický esej. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2009. info
  • TRÁVNÍČEK, J. V kleštích dějin: střední Evropa jako pojem a problém. Brno: Host, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7294-323-4. 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
Composition of written seminar work on selected topic (list of possible topics will be specified on introductory lecture and will correspond to structure of the course) in the extent of 5 pages and its summary in the form of oral presentation.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2017, Summer 2019, Summer 2020.
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