Syllabus
1.Establishing of sociology. Marx, Durkheim, Weber. (chap. 1) 2.
Structure of sociology. Paradigms of sociology. (chap.1, 4) 3.
Traditional society, modern and postmodern (postindustrial). Information, mcdonaldized, credit card societies. (chap. 3) 4.
Sociological research. qualitative and or quantitative research. (chap. 2) 5. Socialization, everyday life.
Sociology and culture. Mass culture. (chap. 4,5) 6.
Socialization and social control. Social deviation and its theories: anomy, labeling, differential associatons.
Permissive society. (chap.¨7) 7. Gender as new topic in sociology. Gender and race inequality.
Identity and sexuality. Feminism as philosophy and social movement.Family, marriage and kinship. (chap. 10) 8.
Family, sexuality.(chap. 15,18) 9. Social inequality.Class, strata.
Underclass, global poverty. (chap. 10,15)(chap. 8, 9) 10. Globalization.
Role of goverments. Time, space, family in the globalization era. (chap. 20) 11.
Organizations and institutions. Sociology of organizations and bureaucracy.
Small groups as opposite to organizations. (chap. 6)
Annotation
Course for non-sociological branches of study try to show sociological style of thinking.
Requirements for exam: 1) Essay approx. 2 pages long. It has to be original (i.e. most of idea are not copied). The topic for essay is: The current society is….
Evaluation 0-20 points. 2) Written test 2 parts: a) discussion of selected text from Masery (see above), understanding to the text and description by sociological terms (0-8 points) b) description of 6 sociological terms from Giddens textbook (0-12 points)
Evaluation 0-20 points.
Total grading: 0-40 points, grading scheme: A-F according to Faculty rules.