Syllabus
The course is open only to students of the Social Sciences (SOSCI) programme and visiting sociology students under the Erasmus+ programme. Please do not enrol in the course if you are not studying the above programmes.The course is not opened to students of the following undergraduate sociological programmes:(1) Sociologie se specializacemi,(2) Sociologie a sociální politika,(3) Sociologie a sociální antropologie.
The course is run contact way but broadcasted and recorded. The record is placed in Moodle.
For a detailed syllabus, please visit the course´s page on Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4496
....................Schematic syllabus:
Week 1: Social Anthropology as Theory and Research Practice (AL)Week 2: Structure and agency I.: The idea of a social system (AL)Week 3: Structure and agency II.: Social structure: from stateless societies to a global dis/order (AL)Week 4: Structure and agency III.: Social boundaries and mobile actors (AL)Week 5: The Cultural Perspective on Societies (EH)Week 6: Analysis of Ethnics, Nations and States (ZU)Week 7: Analysis of Globalisation (ZU)Week 8: Analysis of Migration (ZU)Week 9: Analysis of Social and Cultural Inequalities (EH)Week 10: Analysis of Socialisation, Family and Kinship (EH)Week 11: Analysis of Health and Body Practices (EH)Week 12: Final seminar with a discussion of the term papers. (ZU)
Annotation
The course is open only to students of the Social Sciences (SOSCI) programme and visiting sociology students under the Erasmus+ programme. Please do not enrol in the course if you are not studying the above programmes.
The course is not opened to students of the following undergraduate sociological programmes:
(1) Sociologie se specializacemi,
(2) Sociologie a sociální politika,
(3) Sociologie a sociální antropologie.
The course will introduce students to the social anthropological approach to the analysis of contemporary societies. The lectures will provide an overview of the main social anthropological traditions and key concepts. In seminars, these concepts will be applied to selected social phenomena. The students will thus learn how to understand the social reality through the lens of social anthropology. All the additional necessary information is in Moodle 1.