Contemporary social theory - JSM421

• Title: Contemporary social theory
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2016 to 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 9
• Examination process: winter s.:oral
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 118 / unknown (80)
• 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: PhDr. Mgr. Jan Balon, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Mgr. Jan Balon, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Jan Balon, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)

COVID-19 PROVISIONS

In view of the current developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, the course will start taking place via an online platform Zoom.
Permanent link (the lectures start at 9:30 on Tuesdays)

https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93019604653

The same participation and assessment rules will remain in place.

This course concentrates on key debates within last century’s social theory by means of commented reading. Systematic attention is paid especially to the ways by which social theory analyzes transformations and transitions of contemporary societies - and to the problem: how are these transformations reflected in the research agenda of the social sciences? The course is interdisciplinary in its design.

Requirements:

Written test: 25 points - will take place at the end of December and in January, 2021.
Presentation or essay: 60 points - due by the end of January, 2021. Essay length - 2 500 words.
Position paper: 15 points - due by the end November, 2020 (topics will be announced after introductory lectures). Position paper length - 500 words.

Grading:

- 91 - 100 points: A
- 81 - 90 points: B
- 71 - 80 points: C
- 61 - 70 points: D
- 51 - 60 points: E
- less than 51 points: F

For the list of Required Readings, see MOODLE

https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=3942&lang=en

Self enrolment to the course in MOODLE is obligatory.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Mgr. Jan Balon, Ph.D. (22.09.2021)

COVID-19 PROVISIONS

In view of the current developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, the course will start taking place via an online platform Zoom.
Permanent link (the lectures start at 9:30 on Tuesdays)

https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93019604653

The same participation and assessment rules will remain in place.

Week 1 – Oct. 5, Introduction to the Course

Week 2 – Oct. 12, What is Social Theory?

Week 3 – Oct. 19, Postmodernism and the Consumer Society

Week 4 – Oct. 26, Globalization

Week 5 – Nov. 2. Postcolonialism

Week 6 – Nov. 9, Multiculturalism

Week 7 – Nov. 16, Reading Week

Week 8 – Nov. 23, Civil Society

Week 9 – Nov. 30, New Capitalism

Week 10 – Dec. 7, Transformations of Identity

Week 11 – Dec. 14, Post-Communism

Week 12 - Dec. 21, Written Test

 

COVID-19 PROVISIONS

In view of the current developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, the course will at some/early point start taking place via an online platform (preferably Googlemeet or Zoom). The same participation and assessment rules will remain in place.

 

Requirements:

Written test: 30 points - will take place at the end of December and in January, 2022.
Presentation or essay: 60 points - due by the end of January, 2022.
Position paper: 15 points - due by the end of November, 2020 (topics will be announced after introductory lectures)

 

Grading: 

-      91 - 100 points: A

-      81 -  90 points: B

-      71 - 80 points: C

-      61 - 70 points: D

-      51 - 60 points: E

-      less than 51 points: F

 

 

For the list of Required Readings, see MOODLE 

https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=3942&lang=en

Self enrolment to the course in MOODLE is obligatory.