Terminated in academic year 2008/2009

Sociology

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	121-0309/01
Abbreviation	SOC
Course title	Sociology
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Economics Journalism
Course coordinator	prof. PhDr. Jan Keller, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. The basic definition of sociology
2. Development of modernity
3. Generalization of market and its social consequences
4. Classics of sociology in relation to economic issues
5. Theory of modernization
6. Relationship between economic and socio issues
7. A new social question
8. Problems of networks
9. Social consequences of the organized modernity crisis
10. Risk society
11. The middle classes in the modern society
12. Social state and its problems
13. Exclusion and marginality
14. Modernization of the social sector
15. Some impacts of globalization

Literature

BAKER, E. Media concentration and democrary: why ownership matters. Cambridge: Cambridge 2007
Giddens, Anthony: Politics, Sociology and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought. Cambridge, 1995.

Advised literature

BERGER, A. A. Media Research Techniques. California: Sage Publications, 2006.

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