SOC757 Contemporary Sociological Theory

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2006
Rozsah
1/1. 15 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D. (přednášející)
doc. PhDr. Csaba Szaló, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Michaela Pyšňáková (pomocník)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Katedra sociologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Rozvrh
Čt 10:00–11:40 U34
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Cíle předmětu
The course introduces students into major paradigmatic areas of contemporary social theory and sociological research. It builds on reading and discussing texts by sociological classics of the second half of the 20th century and by authorities in social theory who draw on, develop, and modify the classical traditions today. Understanding continuities and discontinuities in contemporary social thought is one important aim of the course. Therefore it includes examples of older classical texts that inspire the present-day theories either as assigned readings or as presentations given by individual students. In the main part of the course we focus, among others, upon links between the micro and macro levels of social research and analysis. In this way, the empirical relevance of abstract sociological concepts is to be brought to light. Selected prominent issues in contemporary social theory will be, in turn, discussed within paradigmatic theoretical contexts introduced throughout the course. The classes are intended as seminars, rather than lectures. Students work consists in intensive reading of assigned texts and active participation in the class discussions, which will include one individual presentation (10-15 minutes) for each during the semester. Particular attention will be paid to students capacity to understand and present theoretical concepts and paradigms in empirical terms. A class test is scheduled for the second session. Students also write a short final essay (up to 2000 words) on a topic relevant to the discussed texts and problems. They will choose the topic in consultation with one of the teachers. Students are graded on the basis of their performance in the class test, the quality of their oral presentation, and especially the excellence of the final essay. Their activity in the class discussions will also be taken into account.
Osnova
  • 1. Sociology and modernity 2. Capitalism: between cage and liquid 3. A sociological theory of modern personality: the case of narcissism 4. Modernization as social differentiation 5. Social Constructivism and Cultural Sociology 6. Sociology as critical theory 7. New critical theory I: Habermas 8. New critical theory II: Habermas 9. Post-structuralist theory of power I: Foucault 10. Post-structuralist theory of power II: Foucault 11. Contemporary theoretical debates: post-modernity and globalization 12. Contemporary theoretical debates: domination and formation of identities
Literatura
  • Luhmann, Niklas. 1982. The Differentiation of Society. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Searle, John R. The Construction of Social Reality
  • Wagner, Peter. A Sociology of Modernity
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Power. Edited by James Faubion. 1st pub. London: Penguin Books, 2002, xliii, 484. ISBN 0-14-025957-0. info
  • The new social theory reader : contemporary debates. Edited by Steven Seidman - Jeffrey C. Alexander. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2001, xiv, 409. ISBN 0415188083. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Aesthetics :method, and epistemology. Edited by James Faubion. 1st pub. London: Penguin Books, 2000, xli, 486 s. ISBN 0-14-025956-2. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Ethics :subjectivity and truth. Edited by Paul Rabinow. London: Penguin Books, 2000, xlv, 334 s. ISBN 0-14-025954-6. info
  • The rise of the network society. Edited by Manuel Castells. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xxix, 594. ISBN 0-631-22140-9. info
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. Between facts and norms : contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998, xliii, 631. ISBN 0-262-08243-8. info
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. The theory of communicative action. Volume 2, Lifeworld and system : a critique of functionalist reason. 1st pub. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 457 s. ISBN 0-8070-1401-X. info
  • HABERMAS, Jürgen. The theory of communicative action. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984, xlii, 465. ISBN 0-8070-1507-5. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1979, 333 s. ISBN 0394727673. info
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Power/knowledge : selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977. Edited by Colin Gordon, Translated by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977, xii, 270 s. ISBN 0-394-73954-X. info
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