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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Karolína Šedivcová (10.05.2018)
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Karolína Šedivcová (10.05.2018)
Lecture 1 - Introduction to the course. Thomas Kuhn and his thesis about paradigmatic character of social sciences (including sociology). Lecture 2 - Paradigm Montesquieu (Laws about Nature and Society) I. Lecture 3 − Paradigm Montesquieu (Laws about Nature and Society) II. Lecture 4 − Alexis de Tocqueville and his reflection upon fading aristocratic order in Europe and an emerging democratic order in America. Lecture 5 - Alexis de Tocqueville's views on equality, liberty and tyranny of majority in democratic order in America. Lecture 6 − Marx's perspective on interdependence between Christian and Jewish religion on the one hand and emancipation on the other. Lecture 7 - Authority, classes versus status groups and typology of action through the perspective of Max Weber. Lecture 8 - Max Weber's approach to the role of religion and his thesis about elective affinity between protestant ethics and spirit of capitalism. Lecture 9 - Émile Durkheim's conception of mechanical and organic solidarity and his understanding of elementary forms of religion life. Lecture 10 - Crucial elements of totalitarianism and the role of retroactive justice according to Hannah Arendt (Eichmann in Jerusalem). Lecture 11 - Hannah Arendt's theory of power as communication and the role of communicative power in Habermas' theory of democracy. Lecture 12 - Concluding Remarks: Societies of twentieth century according to interdiciplinary theories of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault. |