Study programmes

Historical Sociology is a unique program which can be studied only at the Faculty of Humanities in Prague in the Czech Republic. The program focuses on the problematics of long-term social processes and trends which have a significant impact on the life of contemporary societies. Among the key themes are the questions of modernization and social change, globalization tendencies and influences, integration and disintegration processes, continuity and discontinuity relationships, religious and cultural plurality, global and local interconnections, identification of social development’s chances and risks, analyses of conflict situations and possibilities of their reconciliation. In the Program’s framework, thematically colorful and diverse research on the macro-, meso-, and micro-social level is pursued with the basis in historical and sociological methods. On the program’s background, a graduate is able to design a research project, gather and evaluate archival or new original empirical data, analyze, interpret and explain them, and offer practical solutions of the investigated problems. It is possible to make a concrete picture of the historical sociology’s focus by checking out the papers published in the Historical Sociology journal (https://historicalsociology.cuni.cz/).