Syllabus
* Povinná literatura:
ADLOFF, F. - S. MAU. Giving social ties, reciprocity in modern society. European Journal of Sociology, 2006. 47 (1): 93-123. ISSN 0003-9756.
ANHEIER, H.K. - S. TOEPLER (eds.). Private Funds, Public Purpose. Philanthropic Foundations in International Perspective. New York: Kluwer Academic /Plenum Publishers, 1999. ISBN 978-0306459474. Vybrané kapitoly.
ANHEIER, H.K. - S. TOEPLER - R. LIST (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-0-387-93994-0. Vybraná hesla.
PARMAR, I. Foundations of the American century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the rise of American power. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0231146296. Vybrané kapitoly.
POKORNÝ, J. Odkaz Josefa Hlávky. Historie České akademie věd a umění, Hlávkových studentských kolejí, Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových, jakož i Národohospodářského ústavu. Praha: Academia, 2008. 2. vyd. 302 s. ISBN 978-80-200-1590-7. Vybrané kapitoly.
ZUNZ, O. Philanthropy in America: A history. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0691161204. Vybrané kapitoly. a další články z odborných časopisů.
* Doporučená literatura:
ADAM, Th. (ed.). Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0253343130. Vybrané kapitoly.
GEMELLI, G. - R. MACLEOD (eds.). American Foundations in Europe. Grant-Giving Policies, Cultural Diplomacy and Trans-Atlantic Relations, 1920-1980. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2003. ISBN 978-9052019949. Vybrané kapitoly.
LAGEMANN, E.C. (ed.). Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. 440 s. ISBN 978-0253335005. Vybrané kapitoly.
Annotation
Annotation: This course explores the field of philanthropic foundations from the viewpoint and using the tools of social sciences. Its focus is on modern private philanthropic foundations which emerged in the United States before the end of the 19th century and gradually became the dominant model of foundations across the globe. Specific attention is given to the most influential foundations: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Gates Foundations in the United States, major German and Western European foundations, Hlávka foundation and other Czech foundations as well as recently established large foundations in the emerging economies of the global East and South. Topics:
1) Charity, patronage and philanthropy in Western tradition
2) Giving and reciprocity in social theory
3) Sociological and legal understandings of non-profit foundations
4) The emergence of modern professionalized philanthropy: Carnegie and Rockefeller philanthropies
5) Foundations in the Czech lands in the first half of the 20th century, Hlávka foundation
6) Role of foundations in the international circulation of knowledge
7) The place of foundations in capitalist economy, political criticism of foundations
8) Development of mass philanthropy in the 20th century
9) American philanthropy during the Cold War, the Ford Foundation
10) Western foundations and the post-1989 transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
11) Foundations in the Czech Republic after 1989
12) Venture philanthropy and neoliberal capitalism
13) Private philanthropic foundations become a global phenomenon.