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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Science and Scientific Knowledge from the Perspective of Historical Sociology - YMH033
Title: Věda a vědecké poznání z historicko-sociologické perspektivy
Guaranteed by: Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2025 to 2026
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (10)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: YMH066
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Michael Voříšek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Michael Voříšek, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : YMH066, YMH166
Interchangeability : YMH133
Is incompatible with: YMH066, YMH166
Is interchangeable with: YMH133
Annotation -
The course introduces students to how historical sociology is analyzing modern science. An absolvent of this course will be informed about the basic historical transformations that science and scientific knowledge have undergone in modern society and will be able to identify and grasp the main analytical methods applied in social studies of science. The first part of the course focuses on key structural presuppositions of modern science: scientific disciplines, intellectual market, professions and bureaucracy as ways of organizing knowledge, and political ideologies. The second part focuses on the main methods used in analysis and critique of scientific knowledge: the approach of Michel Foucault, sociology of science, social constructionism, post-colonial and feminist studies of science. The course concludes by a discussion of contemporary society as a "knowledge-based society".
Last update: Voříšek Michael (15.01.2018)
Syllabus - Czech

* Osnova kursu:

1. Úvod: předmoderní formy vědění a moderní věda
2. Vznik vědeckých disciplin
3. Intelektuálové a intelektuální pole (Pierre Bourdieu)
4. Profese a profesionalizace
5. Byrokracie a byrokratizace
6. Ideologie a kritika ideologií
7. Věda a moc, věda a stát (Michel Foucault)
8. Kritika technického vědění (Bruno Latour, Ullrich Beck)
9. Sociálně konstruktivistická analýza a kritika vědeckého poznání
10. Feministická a postkoloniální kritika vědy
11. Vnitřní rozpory společnosti vědění
12. Závěrečné shrnutí: vývoj vědy a historická sociologie

Last update: Baláž Picková Monika, Mgr. (25.02.2026)
 
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