1. Modern and late modern societies and their internal dynamics and contradictions
2. Conception of modern societies: "mass societies", "information society", "postindustrial society"
3. Frankfurt school: Mass culture, cultural industry and consumer society
4. Birmingham school: ethnographic turning point and cultural studies
5. Ulrich Beck and "risk society"
6. Economic globalization and its social and cultural consequences
7. States with "limited liability" (weakening of national states)
8. Communication and its psychological and social (power) dimension
9. Communication and its technological dimension
10. Social and scientific thinking I (classical sociology from Marx to Weber)
11. Social and scientific thinking II (critical social sciences from Frankfurt school to Chomsky)
12. Social and scientific thinking III (post modernistic relativism as apologetics of the consumer society)
13. Economization of the social and political life
2. Conception of modern societies: "mass societies", "information society", "postindustrial society"
3. Frankfurt school: Mass culture, cultural industry and consumer society
4. Birmingham school: ethnographic turning point and cultural studies
5. Ulrich Beck and "risk society"
6. Economic globalization and its social and cultural consequences
7. States with "limited liability" (weakening of national states)
8. Communication and its psychological and social (power) dimension
9. Communication and its technological dimension
10. Social and scientific thinking I (classical sociology from Marx to Weber)
11. Social and scientific thinking II (critical social sciences from Frankfurt school to Chomsky)
12. Social and scientific thinking III (post modernistic relativism as apologetics of the consumer society)
13. Economization of the social and political life