FVP:UVSRPV0140 Introduction to Sociological T - Course Information
UVSRPV0140 Introduction to Sociological Theory
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaWinter 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Žáčková, PhD. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Dušan Janák, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- žádné
- 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
- Public Administration and Regional Policy (programme FVP, B6731-SPSP)
- Course objectives
- The course provides fundamental findings in the field of general sociologic theory. It is derived from essence of classical as well as modern sociologic thought and deals with description and analysis of social environment, interhuman interaction, human acting, behaviour and communication. The course briefly introduces fundamental sociologic paradigms and directions, it shows society and its system, it deals with social structure and stratification, social dynamics, social formations and groups, mechanicals of social control, social conformity and deviation and also individual and its social status in society, and moreover it considers also social phenomena and relations in a sphere of social work.
- Syllabus
- 1. Sociology as scientific discipline
2. Selected theories and personalities from "classical" sociology I.
3. Selected theories and personalities from "classical" sociology II.
4. Modern sociologic directions I.
5. Modern sociologic directions II.
6. Society and its system
7. Individual in a group and theory of groups
8. Social changes and processes
9. Social interactions and communication in common life
10. Norms, deviations and social pathology.
11. Culture in the life of individual as well as society
12. Selected applied sociologic disciplines
- 1. Sociology as scientific discipline
- Literature
- required literature
- 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
- KELLER, J. Dějiny sociologie. Praha: SLON, 2004. info
- JANDOUREK, J. Úvod do sociologie. Praha: Portál, 2003. info
- Havelka M., Cabada L.(eds.). Západní, východní a střední Evropa jako kulturní a politické pojmy. Plzeň: ZČU, 2000. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Lecture with a video analysis - Assessment methods
- Written exam
Oral exam - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- An exam in a written form concentrates on testing of orientation in fundamentals of general sociologic theory and also main sociologic personalities and directions.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2016, recent)
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