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Historical Sociology of Politics (Distance Learning) - YMH111

Title:	Historická sociologie politiky (kombinovaná forma)
Guaranteed by:	Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Humanities
Actual:	from 2020
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:10/0, Ex [HS]
Extent per academic year:	10 [hours]
Capacity:	40 / unknown (40)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	combined
Teaching methods:	combined
Level:	basic
Note:	enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan can be fulfilled in the future

Guarantor:	Mgr. Marek Německý, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	Mgr. Marek Německý, Ph.D.
Incompatibility :	YMH511
Interchangeability :	YMH011
Is incompatible with:	YMH511
Is interchangeable with:	YMH011

Examination dates SS schedule Noticeboard

Annotation -

Last update: BLACKMAMBA (31.08.2010)

In this course, students are familiarised with the essential contributions of historical sociology to the study of state and democracy.

Registration requirements - Czech

Last update: PhDr. Štěpánka Lehmann, Ph.D. (16.02.2010)

Tento kurz je vypisován jako povinný předmět Pracoviště Historické sociologie a volitelný předmět Katedry Studií občanského sektoru. Ostatní studenti si jej mohou zapisovat jen v případě, že kapacita kurzu není naplněna.

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Last update: Mgr. Marek Německý, Ph.D. (15.03.2024)

Zkouška je písemná.-

pravidelná účast na přednáškách

- Četba povinné literatury: Celá kniha Fukuyamy The Origins of Political Order (pro studenty HISO)

pro ostatní bakaláře stačí znalost látky z přednášek (PŘILOŽENA JAKO SOUBOR V PDF DO SISU)

pro kolegu z denního studia platí podmínky pro denní studium.

Topics for the exam:

1. Pre-state forms of politics: Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms (simple chiefdom, complex chiefdom)

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2. Early state: Theories of early state origin:

a. Internal Conflict theories

b. External conflict theories

c. Population pressure, irrigation

d. The leadership theories

e. Systems theories

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3. Cases of early state origin (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mesoamerica),

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4. Oriental despotism, hydraulic theory, China and India

5. Patrimonialism by Max Weber

a. Gerontocracy and primary patriarchalism

b. Pure patrimonialism

c. examples: Ancient Egypt, Persian empire, Merovingian empire,

d. Eisenstadt’s concept of patrimonialism

6. Feudalism by Max Weber

a. Difference between the fief and the beneficium

b. Contractual nature of the relationship between the senior and the vassal.

c. centralized feudalism introduced by the Normans

d. Andreski comment of feudalism.

7. Politics in Islamic world, military slavery

8. The polity of estates (Ständestaat) and the Absolutist state

9. Framework for early modern state building by Fukuyama

i. Weak absolutism

ii. Successful absolutism

iii. Failed oligarchy

iv. Accountable government

10. Development of Parliaments.

a. Difference between French and English Parliament

b. Patterns of the developments of the parliaments:

1. Relatively long and continuous development

2. Discontinuous development

3. Late adoption of parliamentary forms

11. Theories of the modern state

class theory

pluralist theory

elitist theory

Institutional statism

Syllabus - Czech

Last update: Mgr. Marek Německý, Ph.D. (08.04.2022)

Po dobu epidemie probíhá kurs on line via Microsoft teams.

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kod týmu: 6kxdmgo

Osnova přednášek:
1. Sociologie politiky versus politická sociologie
2. Formy sociální organizace moci. Tlupy, kmeny, náčelnictví, státy
3. Vznik raného státu
4. Patrimoniální a feudální politické systémy
5. Vznik feudalismu podle Perry Andersona
6. Orientální politické systémy, orientální despotismus, asijský výrobní způsob
7. Imperiální systémy, Eisenstadtova teorie historicko-byrokratických impérií
8. Absolutismus a absolutistické systémy
9. Eliasova teorie královského monopolu
10. Politická sociologie Baringtona Moora jr.
11. Teorie elit Pareto, Mosca
12. Teorie politických štěpení Lipset Rokkan
13. Teorie politických stran Weber, Michels, Ostrogorski

* Povinná literatura:
- WEBER. M. Economy and Society. An Outline of Interpretative Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0520028241.

* Doporučená literatura:
- ANDERSON P. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso, 1974. ISBN 978-0902308169.
- ANDRESKI. S. The Uses of Comparative Sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. ISBN 0520000242.
- LEWELLLEN. T. C. Political Anthropology. An Introduction. Westport: Praeger Publisher, 2003. ISBN 978-0897898911.
- MANN. M. The Sources of Social Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 1107610419.
- WITTFOGEL. K.A. Oriental Despotism. A Comparative Study of Total Power. New Heaven: Yale University Press, 1957. ISBN 978-0394747019.