Syllabus
1. Sociology of conflict - introduction.2. Sociology of conflict: Lewis Coser.3. Sociology of conflict: Ralph Dahrendorf.4. Sociology of conflict: Ch. W. Mills.5. Sociology of revolution - introduction.6. Sociology of revolution: P. Sorokin and J. Davies.7. Sociology of revolution: C. Brinton and a selected case study.8. Sociology of revolution: Ch. Tilly and S. Huntington.9. Sociology of terrorism: M. Juergensmeyer and religious terrorism.10. Sociology of terrorism: R. Pape and suicide terrorism.11. Sociology of war: propaganda, gender.12. Sociology of war: historical perspective, old and new wars.13. Concluding remarks.
Annotation
The lecture deals with sociology of conflict (K. Marx, L.
Coser, R. Dahrendorf, Ch.
W. Mills) and with the main approaches to the sociology of revolution (P.
Sorokin, J. Davies, T.
Gurr, Ch. Tilly, C.
Brinton, J. Alexander) including selected case studies (for example the Czechoslovac Velvet revolution of 1989, Arab Spring of 2011).
It also partly deals with proto-sociology of war, (K. Marx, C.
Clausewitz, T. Malthus, V.
Lenin, J. Hobson, I.
Kant), selected examples of sociology of war (P. Sorokin, Ch.
Tilly, M. Kaldor, H.
Joas, M. Klare, H.
Dixon, S. Huntington), and sociology of terrorism (sociology of religious terrorism of M.
Juergensmeyer, suicide terrorism covered by R. Pape).