SOC182 Bio-social intractions in modernization

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
24/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Prof. Robert Cliquet, Dr. (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Ladislav Rabušic, CSc.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Timetable
Mon 19. 10. 9:00–11:30 AVC, 14:00–15:30 AVC, Tue 20. 10. 9:00–11:30 U23, 14:00–15:30 U35, Wed 21. 10. 9:00–11:30 AVC, 14:00–15:30 U43, Thu 22. 10. 9:00–11:30 U34, 13:30–15:30 U33, Fri 23. 10. 9:00–11:30 AVC, 14:00–15:00 AVC
Prerequisites
Good command of English. Students in their fifth or sixth semesters will be preferred.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is mainly based on the research and teaching experience of the author at the Ghent University where he was holder of the course Social biology for students in the social and behavioural sciences, and on his research activities at the Population and Family Study Centre (CBGS), Flemish Scientific Institute, Brussels. Although this course is mainly addressed to people with a social science background, it might also be useful for people with biological interests, and in general, for students interested in the complex interrelations between biological and social processes in modern culture.The main objective of the course is the understanding of the terms and theories of evolutionary and social biology which is a very useful knowledge for students social sciences.
Syllabus
  • The course aims at giving an overview of the bio-social interactions in modern society related to the various sources of human biological variation. For each source of variation it starts from the evolutionary background, looks at the variability-specific bio-social interrelations, and confronts evolutionary background, variability-specific ideologies and adaptive needs in modern society. It includes the following basic topics:
  • The evolutionary background of bio-social interactions in the human species;
  • Individual variation and individualism;
  • Age variation and ageism;
  • Sexual variation and sexism;
  • Family variation and familism;
  • Reproductive variation and natalism;
  • Social variation and socialism;
  • Racial variation and racism;
  • Intergenerational variation and eugenism.
Literature
  • Trivers, R.L. (1971), The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology, 46, 1: 35 57.
  • Durham, W.H. (1991), Coevolution. Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press.
  • Cliquet, R. (2009), Biosocial interactions in modernization. Brno: Masaryk University Press,
Teaching methods
Module teaching, lectures, homework reading, class discussion
Assessment methods
The course is finished by a term paper with a classiffication A-F
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Students from their final year of study will be preferred
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008.
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