Sociology of Development and Transformation - YMH541

• Title: Sociology of Development and Transformation
• Guaranteed by: Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / 20 (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Stanislav Holubec, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. Stanislav Holubec, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YMH041, YMH141
• Is incompatible with: YMH041, YMH159, YMH059, YMH141

Annotation

The aim of the course is to present the last four decades of development of the Eurasian world in a historical-sociological perspective, especially the end of the Cold War, the post-communist transformation, the advent of neoliberalism and globalization, the conflicts in the Middle East and the crisis of the Western world since 2008 in the context of civilizational changes (the advent of information technology, environmental crisis, postmodern culture, demographic change).

Last update: Holubec Stanislav, prof. PhDr., Ph.D. et Ph.D. (17.02.2025)

Syllabus

*Requirements

Active participation at the class, regular reading, passing the written exam.

 

Classes:

1) The Last Decade of the Cold War: The Crisis of the Soviet Bloc

2) The rise of neoliberalism in the West

3) Attempt to reform Soviet systems: Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev

4) The crisis of governance in the Middle East: the rise of Islamism

5) The collapse of the Soviet system in Eastern Europe

6) The collapse of federations in post-Soviet countries (CSFR, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia)

7) Civil wars in post-Soviet countries (Yugoslavia, Caucasus)

8) The 1990s in the West: European integration, the end of history, globalization and the clash of civilizations

9) Integration of Central Europe into Western structures, shift of post-Soviet countries towards authoritarianism, oligarchization, privatization

10) The information revolution of the 1990s and 1990s, global warming and cultural cooling

11) The economic crisis of 2008 and the rise of populism

12) EU disintegration (Greek crisis, migration crisis, Brexit), rise of China and Y2K

 

Readings of cc 20 pages will be sent electronically for each seccion.

Last update: Tvarůžková Renata, Ing. (25.03.2026)