FVP:USESEN001 Forming the Social and Politic - Course Information

USESEN001 Forming the Social and Political Identities in Europe

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Guaranteed by

prof. 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

• Central European Studies (programme FVP, N6702-MTS)

Course objectives

The course brings closer the forming of social identities and their importance for social and political acting of participants. In the introductory part, the students are presented the general theory of identity, describing the means of creation of social and personal identity. The second part is dedicated to questions of forming, maintaining and transformations of national identities as prototypes of political identities whose origin is closely connected to processes of forming of modern states. The final part relates to questions of protest political identities in the context of modern social movements and next supranational social identities which currently relates to phenomena of transnational migration and European integration.

Syllabus

• I. block: General theory of identity
  1. Searching for identity in historical, sociological, politological and philosophical perspective
  2. Social construction of identity? cultural identity; organism, sexuality and identity
  3. Political identity - usage of concept of identity in context of examination of political processes
  II. block? National identity as prototype of political identity
  4.National identity and forming of public political area; cultural and political concept of nation
  5. Mechanicals in forming of national identities in Europe of the 18th till 20th century; identification of ancestors, folklore, mass culture
  6. National movements of small (oppressed) nations, national identity in rhetoric of political parties
  7. Multicultural society and forming of regional identities (on the example of Silesia)
  8. Identity of national minorities, ethnocentrism and nationalism, strategy of cultural assimilation
  III. block: Protest identities and supranational social identities
  9. Forming of protest identities in the context of social movements (example of anti-globalism)
  10. Transformations of political identities in central Europe after 1989 (post-socialistic nationalism, anti-feminism and new forms of anti-Semitism and their displays in rhetoric of political parties
  11. Transnational migration and identity
  12. European political identity (nationality, citizenship and social integration in new Europe)
  

Literature

required literature
• SZALÓ, C. Transnacionální migrace. Proměny identit, hranic a vědění o nich. Brno: CDK, 2007. info
• THIESSOVÁ, A.-M. Vytváření národních identit v Evropě 18. až 20. století. Brno: CDK, 2007. info
• MARADA, R. (ed.). Etnická různost a občanská jednota. Brno: CDK, 2006. info
• SZALÓ, C. - NOSÁL, I. (eds.). Mozaika v rekonstrukci: formování sociálních identit v současné střední Evropě. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politol, 2003. info
• HROCH, M. (ed.). Pohledy na národ a nacionalismus. Praha: SLON, 2003. info

recommended literature
• BAŠOVÁ, A. - BARŠA, P. Přistěhovalectví a liberální stát (Imigrační a integrační politiky v USA, západní Evropě a Česku). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politol, 2005. info
• FAFEJTA, M. Úvod do sociologie sexuality a pohlaví. Věrovany: Jan Piszkiewicz, 2004. info
• ŠMAUSOVÁ, G. Proti tvrdošíjné představě o ontické povaze těla a gender. In Barša, P. (ed.): Politika rodu a sexuální identity. Sociální studia 7. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003. 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

Continuous reading of assigned literature, active participation in seminars, written seminar paper in the extent of 4 pages on topic regional identity from the area of student´s native place or residence summarized in the form of oral presentation in the seminar. The course is terminated by exam, which is composed of test with approximately 30 closed questions with four possible answers, from which one, more or all or none can be correct; the successful passing of the test is conditioned by correct answers in the amount of at least two thirds.

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