Syllabus
1. Living conditions and individual personality. The relationship between lifestyle and personal identity, career issues of individuals.
2. Overview of the determinants of lifestyle, lifestyle symbols, eurostyle, the issue of exhaustion of social capital of European culture, cultural change, singels, McDonaldization, lifestyle and unemployment, sickness, old age, leisure time and below.
3. Lifestyle and specifics of contemporary Czech society. The basic contours of contemporary life styles as variants life choices (voluntary, temporary, forced, permanent).
4. Contemporary Sociological Theory lifestyle. Social construction of lifestyle (in the context of knowledge constructivism), the values and the chance of life.
5. Maslow's hierarchy and social adaptation, the theory of alienation (old age), intergenerational discontinuity research lifestyle (World Database of Happiness), etc.
6. New lifestyle and gender specifics in the country of Czech Republic.
Annotation
Currently preferred multicultural approach leads to pluralisation, multiplication lifestyles. The purpose of the course is to gain some insight into the lifestyle of these variants, apply basic sociological concepts to alternativnost lifestyle, variability of the ways of life each individuals, including differentiation, identifying spectrum of lifestyles and options conditional generation, education, location, etc.
It is solved issues of lifestyle due to the specifics of contemporary Czech society presented the basic contours of contemporary life styles as variants life choices (voluntary, temporary, forced, permanent) and social construction of lifestyle (in the context of knowledge of constructivism).