Sociology of Conflict - YBLS008

• Title: Sociology of Conflict
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Old code: YBAJ172
• Guarantor: Mgr. Karel Černý, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Group of prerequisites for LAH and Exchange students - SOC}
• Incompatibility : YBAJ172, YMH545

Annotation

English

The lecture deals with sociology of conflict (K. Marx, L. Coser, R. Dahrendorf, Ch. W. Mills) and with the main approaches to the sociology of revolution (P. Sorokin, J. Davies, T. Gurr, Ch. Tilly, C. Brinton, J. Alexander) including selected case studies (for example the Czechoslovac Velvet revolution of 1989, Arab Spring of 2011). It also partly deals with proto-sociology of war, (K. Marx, C. Clausewitz, T. Malthus, V. Lenin, J. Hobson, I. Kant), selected examples of sociology of war (P. Sorokin, Ch. Tilly, M. Kaldor, H. Joas, M. Klare, H. Dixon, S. Huntington), and sociology of terrorism (sociology of religious terrorism of M. Juergensmeyer, suicide terrorism covered by R. Pape).

Last update: Horáčková Karolína, Bc. (23.12.2024)

Syllabus

1. Sociology of conflict - introduction.
2. Sociology of conflict: Lewis Coser.
3. Sociology of conflict: Ralph Dahrendorf.
4. Sociology of conflict: Ch. W. Mills.
5. Sociology of revolution - introduction.
6. Sociology of revolution: P. Sorokin and J. Davies.
7. Sociology of revolution: C. Brinton and a selected case study.
8. Sociology of revolution: Ch. Tilly and S. Huntington.
9. Sociology of terrorism: M. Juergensmeyer and religious terrorism.
10. Sociology of terrorism: R. Pape and suicide terrorism.
11. Sociology of war: propaganda, gender.
12. Sociology of war: historical perspective, old and new wars.
13. Concluding remarks.

Last update: Horáčková Karolína, Bc. (23.12.2024)

Learning resources

Recomended reading:
Sinisa Malesevic. Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Mark Juergensmeyer. Terror in mind of god. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.
Robert Pape. Dying to Win. New York: Random House, 2005.

Last update: Horáčková Karolína, Bc. (23.12.2024)