SOCb2010 Research Practice

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Tomáš Doseděl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Roman Vido, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Iva Šmídová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites (in Czech)
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Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The objective of the course is to broaden student´s knowledge of classical sociology by reading of and working with selected pieces of primary sources written by the classics. A detailed work with the texts will be emphasized with ability to understand them correctly and put them into a broader social and intellectual context.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to identify basic ideas and theses in the selected readings, to interpret their meanings, to apply them on the social reality of contemporary societies as well as compare different sociological analyses of the life in modern societies.
Syllabus
  • 1. Alexis de Tocqueville 1 2. Alexis de Tocqueville 2 3. Émile Durkheim 1 4. Émile Durkheim 2 5. Émile Durkheim 3 6. Max Weber 1 7. Max Weber 2 8. Max Weber 3 9. George Simmel 1 10. George Simmel 2 11. Karl Mannheim 1 12. Karl Mannheim 2
Literature
  • SIMMEL, Georg. Filosofie peněz. Translated by Milan Váňa. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2011, 626 s. ISBN 9788020019202. info
  • WEBER, Max. Metodologie, sociologie a politika. Translated by Miloš Havelka. 2., opr. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2009, 351 s. ISBN 9788072983896. URL info
  • DURKHEIM, Émile. Společenská dělba práce. Translated by Pavla Doležalová. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2004, 375 s. ISBN 8073250411. info
  • TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Starý režim a revoluce. Translated by Vladimír Jochmann - Adriena Borovičková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2003, 306 s. ISBN 8020009809. info
  • DURKHEIM, Émile. Elementární formy náboženského života :systém totemismu v Austrálii. Vyd. 1. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2002, 491 s. ISBN 80-7298-056-4. info
  • TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Demokracie v Americe. Translated by Vladimír Jochmann. Vyd. 2., v nakladatelství A. Praha: Academia, 2000, 624 s. ISBN 8020008292. info
  • WEBER, Max. Autorita, etika a společnost : pohled sociologa do dějin. Translated by Jan J. Škoda. 1. české vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997, 294 s. ISBN 8020406115. info
  • SIMMEL, Georg. Peníze v moderní kultuře a jiné eseje. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1997, 206 s. ISBN 80-85850-50-8. info
  • MANHEIM, Karl. Ideologie a utopie : Přednášky a eseje. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Archa, 1991, 357 s. info
Teaching methods
seminar, reading, class discussion
Assessment methods
Students hand in written homework and write a final essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je určen studujícím, kteří se podílejí na odborném řešení výzkumných projektů. Viz anotace předmětu ohledně podmínek zápisu.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
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