FSS:HEN554 Environmental Ideology - Course Information
HEN554 Environmental Ideology and Common Day
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Pavel Klvač (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ivona Tolarová - Timetable
- Wed 16:00–17:40 M117
- 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
- Environmental Studies (programme FSS, N-HE)
- Environmental Humanities (programme FSS, N-HE3)
- Media Studies and Journalism (programme FSS, N-KS)
- Course objectives
- The main objectives of the course is to allow students to reflect
ways in which people intheir everyday lives react to the public appreciation of the environment. Students examine how the values, goals, rules, and work technology react to the issue of environment.
Through lextures and seminars students get acquinted with the terms which characterise different attitudes of modern people to environment ("ideology of the environment") and which describes "culture" as the context of institutionalisation of these approaches in the life of work communities. - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction, basic terms.;
- 2. "Public appreciation of the problem of environment" and "Ideology of the environment".
- MUSIL, L.: Těžba uhlí, problém prostředí, modernita: Jak ekologická výzva ovlivnila organizaci jedné ostravské šachty. Georgetown, Brno 1999, s. 24-40, 31-47, 59-60, 75-79, 95-105, 124-132, 142-153, 196-204, 210-219. JAMIESON, A.: The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda: The Role of Non-governmental Organisations. In: LASH, S., SZERSZYNSKI, B., WYNNE, B. (eds.), Risk, Environment, and Modernity, Towards a New Ecology, Sage, London etc. 1996, pp. 234-243. HAJER, M.: Ecological Modernisation as Cultural Politics. In: LASH, S., SZERSZYNSKI, B., WYNNE, B. (eds.), Risk, Environment, and Modernity, Towards a New Ecology, Sage, London etc. 1996, pp. 248-249, 260-266. KELLER, J.: Sociologie a ekologie. SLON, Praha 1997, s. 50 - 79, 123 - 150. NAESS, A.: Ekologie, pospolitost a životní styl. ABIES, Tulčík 1994, s. 32 - 40, 49 - 53, 138 - 153, 236 - 260.
- 3. „Culture of working community“
- GEERTZ, C.: Interpretace kultur. SLON, Praha 2000, s. 13-42. MUSIL, L.: Těžba uhlí, problém prostředí, modernita: Jak ekologická výzva ovlivnila organizaci jedné ostravské šachty. Georgetown, Brno 1999, s. 10-12.
- 4. Typology of culture of working community“ („hierarchic“ and „synergic organisation“, „concept of social surroundings of working community“.
- GREGOR, M. a kol.: Hledání pružné organizace. FF MU, Brno 1993.
- 5. Framework of reflection of problem of environment public acceptation and culture of working community.
- MUSIL, L.: Těžba uhlí, problém prostředí, modernita: Jak ekologická výzva ovlivnila organizaci jedné ostravské šachty. Georgetown, Brno 1999, s. 9-13, 142-246. 6. reading week.
- 7. test.
- 8. Case study - coal mines I.
- MUSIL, L.: Těžba uhlí, problém prostředí, modernita: Jak ekologická výzva ovlivnila organizaci jedné ostravské šachty. Georgetown, Brno, chapter 2-9.
- 9. Case study - coal mines II.
- MUSIL, L.: Těžba uhlí, problém prostředí, modernita: Jak ekologická výzva ovlivnila organizaci jedné ostravské šachty. Georgetown, Brno, chapter 2-9.
- 10. Essay seminar and feedback.
- 11. Essay seminar and feedback.
- 12. Essay seminar and feedback.
- 13. Essay seminar and feedback.
- Literature
- MUSIL, Libor. Těžba uhlí, problém prostředí, modernita. Jak ovlivnila ekologická výzva organizaci jedné ostravské šachty (Coal-Mining, Environmental Problem, Modernity. Environmental Challenge and Organisation of One Coal-Mine in Ostrava). Brno: Masarykova universita, Nakladatelství Georgetown, 1999, 257 pp. Spisy FSS brněnské university, Svazek 1. ISBN 80-210-2188-8. info
- KELLER, Jan. Sociologie a ekologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1997, 232 s. ISBN 80-85850-42-7. info
- Risk, environment and modernity : towards a new ecology. Edited by Scott Lash - Bronislaw Szerszynski - Brian Wynne. 1st publ. London: SAGE Publications, 1996, ix, 294 s. ISBN 0-8039-7937-1. info
- NAESS, Arne. Ekologie, pospolitost a životní styl :náčrt ekosofie. Edited by David Rothenberg, Translated by Jiří Hrubý. Vyd. 1. Tulčík: Abies, 1993, 310 s. ISBN 80-88699-09-6. info
- Assessment methods
- Lectures. Test, essay, oral presentation of essay, comentary on essay.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2009, recent)
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