Cross-Cultural Studies. Reading and Understanding Scientific Texts about Culture - JJM187

• Title: Cross-Cultural Studies
• Czech title: Cross-Cultural Studies
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D. (21.08.2023)

The seminar deals with some classic as well as new perspectives of cross-cultural studies. We get to know various concepts of culture and different approaches to the study of culture. Various theoretical concepts will be presented by the teacher. Together we discuss the concepts and try to reveal their basic ideas and conclusions.

In the practical part we deal with the process of scientific research itself. We familiarize with the individual steps of empirically based cross-cultural research. Each student gets the opportunity to conduct their own research in the field of cross-cultural studies. This might be helpful for your further studies (not only) in this area.

Aim of the course

Last update: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D. (21.08.2023)

1. Get familiar with varoius concepts of culture and approaches to the study of culture

2. Get familiar with some methodology in empirical cross-cultural research

3. Create a research project 

 

 

Course completion requirements

Last update: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D. (21.08.2023)

- Regular and active participation

- Read and prepare the seminar texts at home

- Final essay on your research project of 8-10 pages

- the essay must be submitted by January, 15, 2024

Literature

Last update: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D. (21.08.2023)

Halbwachs, Maurice: On Collective Memory, Chicago, London, 1992. The University of Chicago Press. (Translation of: Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire, Paris, 1952.) 

Hodges Persell, Caroline (1987). (2^nd edition) Understanding Society. An Introduction to Sociology, p. 83-101. New York University.

Hofstede, Geert & Hofstede, Gerd J. (2005). Cultures and Or­ganizations. Software of the mind. Intercultural Coopera­tion and its Importance for Survival. New York. Mc Graw-Hill.

Neuendorf, Kimberly A. (2002). The content analysis guidebook. Thousand Oaks. Sage.

Inglehart, Ronald, Halma, Loek, Welzel, Christian (2004). Introduction. In R. Inglehart, M. Basáňes, J. Díez-Medrano (Hrsg.), Human beliefs and values. A cross-cultural sourcebook based on the 1999-2002 values surveys, S. 1-20. Mexico. Siglo XXI Editores.

Inglehart, Ronald, Welzel Christian (2007). (1. ed. 2005). Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy. The Human Development Sequence. Cambridge. University Press.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D. (21.08.2023)

Knowledge of the literature on individual lectures and seminars.

Final essay.

The overall evaluation of performance is based on a percentage scale in the following range:

100 - 91: A (superb, excellent performance with only minor faults)

81 - 90: B (very good, above average performance but with some faults)

71 - 80: C (good, overall good performance with some significant faults)

61 - 70: D (satisfactory, acceptable performance, but with significant faults)

51 - 60: E (sufficient, performance meets minimum requirements)

50 - 0: F

Syllabus

Last update: Ulrike Lütke Notarp, Ph.D. (21.08.2023)

1) Introduction to Cross-Cultural Research

2) Cultural Theory I

Text 1:         Culture – defining the concept by Caroline Hodges Persell (1987).

3) Cross cultural research

Text 2:         Hofstede´s Concept of cultural dimensions

4) Hofstede´s Concept of cultural dimensions II

5) Process of scientific discovery

6) Just one method in Cross-Cultural Studies:

Text 3:         Introduction to Content Analysis

7) Conducting research in cross-cultural studies

- Work on projects

- Conducting a content analysis 

8)  Modernization Theory - an overview

Text 4:         “Implications of Modernization and Human Development” by Inglehart, Halman, Welzel

9) Conducting research in cross-cultural studies

- Work on projects

10) Individual Memory – Collective Memory, History – Concepts of Remembrance by Maurice Halbwachs

Text 5: HALBWACHS, Maurice: On Collective Memory, Chicago, London, 1992. The University of Chicago Press. (Translation of: Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire, Paris, 1952.) 

11) Collective Memory – National Identity

A Research into Concepts of National Identity in Russia, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and others

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