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Last update: RNDr. Jolana Tátosová, Ph.D. (30.05.2016)
psychology for the analysis of the relation between physical environment, social behaviour and social organization. The objective of the course is to provide students the tools for analysing sociological construct such as attitudes and preferences related to environmental issues. Through a comprehensive review, from the fundamentals theoretical underpinning in sociology to selected topics in environmental sociology and social- psychology, students will acquire appropriate knowledge and develop skills to apply properly the available methods of sociological research, conduct basic statistical analysis and interpret their results. A component of the course is the applied use of statistical point estimation of sociological concepts |
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Last update: RNDr. Jolana Tátosová, Ph.D. (30.05.2016)
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Describe the fundamentals of founding sociological theories 2. Explain the foundations of environmental sociology 3. Summarize the empirical implications of the use of basic sociological methods 4. Analyse microdata on environmentally significant behaviour, attitudes, etc. using statistical packages 5. Interpret the results of the model estimation 6. Formulate and test behavioural hypotheses |
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Last update: RNDr. Jolana Tátosová, Ph.D. (30.05.2016)
Babbie, E. R. (2010). The practice of social research. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Giddens, A. and Sutton, P. W. (2013). Sociology (7th Edition). Polity press. Griffiths, D. (2008). Head First Statistics (1 edition.). Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media. Yearley, S. (2005). Cultures of environmentalism: empirical studies in environmental sociology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Bell, M. (2012). An invitation to environmental sociology. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. Recommended books (not required but reading is suggested): Beck, U. Riziková společnost: na cestě k jiné moderně [online]. 2. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2011 [cit. 2016-05-27]. Post. ISBN 978-80-7419-047-6. Dostupné z: http://sfx.is.cuni.cz/sfxlcl3?isbn=978-80-7419-047-6 Disman, M. (2000). Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost: příručka pro uživatele. 3. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000. Hendl, J. (2009). Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat (Vyd. 3.). Praha: Portál. Gould, K. A., Lewis, T.L. (2009): Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press. 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-537112-3 KING, Leslie a Deborah MCCARTHY. Environmental sociology: from analysis to action. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 0-7425-3507-X. Dostupné také z: |
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Last update: RNDr. Jolana Tátosová, Ph.D. (30.05.2016)
40 % midterm and final exams 40 % home works 20 % active participation during lectures and seminars |
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Last update: RNDr. Jolana Tátosová, Ph.D. (30.05.2016)
1) Historical emergence of sociology - perspectives or schools of thought that inform much sociological practice 2) Key thinkers and historical context: Comte and sociology as a positive science; Durkheim - social facts and the application of natural science methods to social inquiry; Marx - materialist conception of history; Weber - role of ideas and beliefs in social change 3) Three main perspectives: functionalism (Parsons, Merton), conflict theories (Dahrendorf) and social action theories (Weber, Mead) meaning and action, symbolic interactionism 4) Theoretical sources of anthropogenic concept of the world in sociology 5) Realism versus social constructivism Unit 2: Asking and answering sociological questions 1) Basic sociological approach to studying social life - the nature of sociological questions; 2) Types of research questions: factual questions, comparative questions, developmental questions, empirical and theoretical questions 3) Sociological research as a scientific endeavour. (a) systematic method; (b) empirical investigation; (c) data analysis; (d) theoretical thinking; and (e) logical assessment of argument - but subjects under study endow their actions with their own meanings and explanations. 4) Design of sociological research: process, inference, data collection methods and other miscellaneous issues. 5) Research methods in social science (advantages and drawbacks): o Ethnography, incl. Fieldwork using participant observation o Survey methods (standardized vs. open-ended questionnaires) § Sampling, representativness, random sampling o Experiments and quasi- experiments o Biographical research o Historical analysis (oral history and documentary research) 6) Causal relationship vs. correlation 7) Ethical issues relevant to the use of sociological methods 8) Descriptive statistics: Measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median), degree of dispersal (variance and st. deviation) and correlation coefficients - measure of association between variables 9) Temporal aspects of the data (cross-sectional vs. longitudinal data) 10) Meta-analysis Unit 3: Measurement in social science research 1) Theory, hypothesis, operational definition, indicator, measurement 2) Levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. 3) Reliability 4) Types of measures used in social research 5) Scaling; mostly applied scales in sociology and social-psychology (Guttman scale, Thurston scale, Lickert Scale) 6) Examples of sociological and psychological scales relevant for research of environmental issues: New-environmental Paradigm Scale, General ecological behavior scale Unit 4: Categorical data and its statistical analysis 1) Random variables, probability, odds, statistical distributions 2) Statistical inference 3) Do hypothesis testing 4) Analysis of categorical data, perform chi square analysis, 5) Analysis of dependencies, F-tests 6) Analysis of variance (ANOVA, ANCOVA); Post Hoc Tests 7) Use of analysis of variance in experimental studies Unit 5: Environmental sociology 1) Sociological Theory and the Environment 2) Social Construction of Environmental Problems 3) Environmental Sociology (theories): Risk society, Society of treadmill of production, Ecological modernization, New ecological paradigm 4) Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior 5) Measurements of environmental attitudes 6) Empirical analysis of selected environmental issues |