Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Sociology

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	711-2605/01
Abbreviation	SOC
Course title	Sociology
Credits	2
Coordinating department	Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator	Mgr. Petra Kowaliková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The formation of sociology.
•Development of approaches to the study of society: selected representatives of sociological thinking.
•Social structure, systems of stratification.
•Social change and social mobility.
•The concept of culture in sociology. General Introduction.
•Objectivist and interpretive view of culture.
•National culture versus multiculturalism.
•Diversity of cultures.
•Introduction to organisational culture.
•Media, culture and society.
•Changes in family form.
•Social deviance.

Literature

Evans, K. (2006): Studying Society: the essentials, London, Routledge, 220p.
Churton, M. (2000): Theory and Method, Basingstoke, Macmillan Press. 324 p.
Sennett, R. (2006): The culture of the new capitalism. New Haven : Yale University Press.
Newman, D. M.(1999): Sociology of families. Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, 1999.
selected chapters from : Giddens, A. (2001): Sociology. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2001.

Advised literature

Bauman, Z (1998): Globalization: the Human Consequences, Cambridge: Polity.
Bell, M. (2004): An invitation to Environmental Sociology Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.
Hirst, P; Thompson, G.(1999): Globalization in question: the international economy and the possibilities of governanc. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Macionis, J.J.(2002): Sociology: a global introduction. Prentice-Hall, 2002.
selected chapters from: Macionis, J.J.(2002: Sociology: a global introduction. Prentice-Hall, 2002.
selected chapters from: Churton, M. (2000): Theory and Method, Basingstoke, Macmillan Press.

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