Syllabus
Introduction. ?Active reading? (Šanderová, Fromm)
Analysis of the debate about "area studies" (ims.fsv.cuni.cz) ? West European studies, what for?.
Model commentary of text of Dusan Trestik: http://www.clavmon.cz/archiv/polemiky/prispevky/trestik.html
Active reading: Max WEBER: ?Věda jako povolání?, in Ibid.: Metodologie, sociologie a politika, Praha 1998, s. 109-135.
Model presentation of a research agenda.
Active reading: Rogers BRUBAKER, Frederick COOPER: ?Beyond ?identity??, Theory and Society, 29, 2000, s. 1-47.
Discussion on the basis of short essays (5000 signs) on the topic ?Does a European identity exist??
Active reading: Max WEBER: ??Objektivita? sociálněvědního a sociálněpolitického poznání?, Ibid.: Metodologie, sociologie a politika, Praha 1998, s. 7-64.
Commentary of Timothy Garton ASH: ?How is Memory Formed??, Identity and Memory, Paris 2007, s. 46-56.
?Midterm? - commentary of a short text (90 min.)
Presentations of research agendas.
Annotation
Focus on analysis of several "founding" texts of social sciences and on presentation of research agendas of participating students.