Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)
The course aims to acquaint students with: how the city is defined and what is called urbanization. How does the image of the urban man and the city change?
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)
The course aims to acquaint students with: how the city is defined and what is called urbanization. How does the image of the urban man and the city change?
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (04.12.2023)
Conditions for completing the course: 1. participation in lessons 2. activity in discussions on this topic 3. passing the course: oral exam in the exam terms or a presentation in teaching hours
Marking:
100 - 91: A (excellent, excellent performance with small errors) 81-90: B (very good, above-average performance, but with some bugs) 71 - 80: C (good, overall good performance with some significant errors) 61-70: D (satisfactory, acceptable performance, but with significant shortcomings) 51-60: E (sufficient, performance meets minimum requirements) 50 - 0: F (did not meet the requirements for the course)
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (04.12.2023)
Conditions for completing the course: 1. participation in lessons 2nd activity in discussions on this topic 3. passing: the oral exam or a presentation during the teaching hours
Marking:
100 - 91: A (excellent, excellent performance with small errors) 81-90: B (very good, above-average performance, but with some bugs) 71 - 80: C (good, overall good performance with some significant errors) 61-70: D (satisfactory, acceptable performance, but with significant shortcomings) 51-60: E (sufficient, performance meets minimum requirements) 50 - 0: F (did not meet the requirements for the course)
Literature -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)
Compulsory
Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980.
Park Robert Ezra, The City. Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916.
Sassen Saskia: The Global City: Introducing a concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs XI, 2005, 2.
Recommended
Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.
Brunt, Lodewijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.
Douglas Mary, How Institutions Think. Syracuse University Press 1986.
Ek, Sven B. Nöden i Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.
Epstein, A. L. Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 1992.
Garreau Joel: Edge City: Life on the frontiers. New York, Doubleday 1991.
Hannerz U.: Global Ecumene as a Network of Network. In: Conceptualizing society / edited by Adam Kuper. London, New York: Routledge 1992.
Redfield, R. The Primitive World and Its Transformations. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press 1953.
Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 - 127.
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (14.09.2021)
Compulsory
Hannerz Ulf, Exploring the City. Columbia University Press 1980.
Park Robert Ezra, The City. Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment. New York 1916.
Sassen Saskia: The Global City: Introducing a concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs XI, 2005, 2.
Recommended
Bausinger, Hermann: Grundzüge der Volkskunde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978.
Brunt, Lodevijk. Coping with Urban Danger. In: Uherek, Z. (ed.) City in Supranational and Regional Networks. Praha, Institute of Ethnology 1992.
Douglas Mary, How Institutions Think. Syracuse University Press 1986.
Ek, Sven B. Nöden i Lund. Lund: Liber vörlag 1982.
Epstein, A. L. Senes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Papers. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 1992.
Garreau Joel: Edge City: Life on the frontiers. New York, Doubleday 1991.
Hannerz U.: Global Ecumene as a Network of Network. In: Conceptualizing society / edited by Adam Kuper. London, New York: Routledge 1992.
Redfield, R. The Primitive World and its Transformations. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press 1953.
Uherek Zdeněk: L'ethnologie urbaine en pays tchćques. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire. Septembre 1997: 111 - 127.
Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (19.09.2022)
Lectures face to face.
1. How to learn the city; Definition of the city and urban settlement
2. Chicago School and Theory of Social Ecology.
3. Manchester School and Research in African Urban Environment - British Colonial City, Concepts of Detribalization, Disqualification, Modernity, Social Network Research, Situational Analysis.
4. Globalization and global culture and the use of social networking theory to describe global culture.
5. Erving Goffman and his concept of total institution.
6. Mary Douglas, How the Institution Thinks.
7. German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a tribal community metaphor, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and mass media, German contemporaries.
8. Urban research in Central and Eastern Europe: cultural and historical probes into the urban environment, urban sociology of the interwar period, urban and working class research, Sallner ethnology of the city.
9. Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City.
10. Amsterdam urban anthropology, concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps ..
11. As explored postmodern city - morphology and consciousness, redefinition center of peripheral relations, research of edge cities, suburban fringe zones, exurban areas and recombinat cities.
12. The global city.
Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (19.09.2022)
Pectures in scheduled lecture room in Pekařská.
1. How to learn the city; Definition of the city and urban settlement
2. Chicago School and Theory of Social Ecology.
3. Manchester School and Research in African Urban Environment - British Colonial City, Concepts of Detribalization, Disqualification, Modernity, Social Network Research, Situational Analysis.
4. Globalization and global culture and the use of social networking theory to describe global culture.
5. Erving Goffman and his concept of total institution.
6. Mary Douglas, How the Institution Thinks.
7. German approaches to the city, urban culture and nationalism, the concept of community and society, urban society as a tribal community metaphor, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Baussinger's "third way", anthropology and mass media, German contemporaries.
8. Urban research in Central and Eastern Europe: cultural and historical probes into the urban environment, urban sociology of the interwar period, urban and working class research, Sallner ethnology of the city.
9. Kevin Lynch and his The Image of the City.
10. Amsterdam urban anthropology, concept of city danger and exploration of mental maps ..
11. As explored postmodern city - morphology and consciousness, redefinition center of peripheral relations, research of edge cities, suburban fringe zones, exurban areas and recombinat cities.
