The Sociology of Conflict, War and Terrorism - YMH545

• Title: The Sociology of Conflict, War and Terrorism
• Guaranteed by: Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2022
• 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 / 10 (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
• Level: specialized
• 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: Mgr. Karel Černý, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Jiří Juhász
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. BA students interested in this course need to enrol the BA level code that begins with "YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBAJ172, YMH045, YMH145
• Is incompatible with: YMH045, YBAJ172, YMH145

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Monika Picková (03.12.2020)

THIS COURSE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE STUDENTS OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY! This course focuses on the issue of the proto-sociology of war (Clausewitz, Malthus, Lenin, Hobson, Kant) and the sociology of war (Sorokin, Tilly), as well as on the conflict paradigm in sociology and on the sociological analysis of terrorism.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Karel Černý, Ph.D. (24.02.2021)

THIS COURSE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE STUDENTS OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY! The lecture is dealsing with the sociology of conflict (K. Marx, L. Coser, R. Dahrendorf, Ch. W. Mills) and with the main approaches to the sociology of revolution (P. Sorokin, J. Davies, T. Gurr, Ch. Tilly, C. Brinton, J. Alexander) including selected case studies (for example the CzechoslovacCzechoslovak Velvet revolution of 1989). It also deals with proto-sociology of war, (K. Marx, C. Clausewitz, T. Malthus, V. Lenin, J. Hobson, I. Kant), sociology of war (P. Sorokin, Ch. Tilly, M. Kaldor, H. Joas, M. Klare, H. Dixon, S. Huntington), and sociology of terrorism (M. Juergensmeyer, R. Pape). The lectures will be held in MS Teams on regular bases. https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3af59ee8e005094d448ae5188faf215c61%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=1e5b60fa-93c7-495e-834a-806f9068e44b&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šedivcová (04.06.2019)

Structure of Lessons:
1. Sociology of conflict - introduction.

2. Sociology of conflict: Lewis Coser.

3. Sociology of conflict: Ralph Dahrendorf.

4. Sociology of conflict: Ch. W. Mills.

5. Sociology of revolution - introduction.

6. Sociology of revolution: P. Sorokin and J. Davies.

7. Sociology of revolution: C. Brinton and a selected case study.

8. Sociology of revolution: Ch. Tilly and S. Huntington.

9. Sociology of terrorism: M. Juergensmeyer and religious terrorism.

10. Sociology of terrorism: R. Pape and suicide terrorism.

11. Sociology of war: propaganda, gender.

12. Sociology of war: historical perspective, old and new wars.

13. Concluding remarks.

Required reading:

• Sinisa Malesevic. Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• Mark Juergensmeyer. Terror in mind of god. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

• Robert Pape. Dying to Win. New York: Random House, 2005.