Modern sociological theories WSE-SO-WTS
1 Paradigmatic diversity in sociology; subjectivist paradigm's theories ( Weber , pragmatists , de Saussure , Lévi - Strauss , Mead , Goffman , symbolic interactionism , phenomenological sociology , etnometodologia , Foucault - 2 hours .
2. Objectivist paradigm's theories : neofunctionalism ( Luhmann and Alexander ) and its source ( Merton , Parsons ) and theories of conflict - 2 hours .
3.The closed theory of open discourse - Habermas - 2 hours .
4. Habitus and reproduction in the theory of P. Bourdieu - 2 hours
5. World of hopes Z. Bauman? - 2 hours .
6. Structuration perspective and A. Giddens 'third way' - 2 hours .
7. Globalization and the theory of system ¬ - the world I. Wallerstein; The twoo hours of three magis ( Beck, Sennett , Sassen ) - 2 hours .
8. Conservative , Liberal and communitarian perspective of understanding the present - 2 hours .
9. Sociology of civilization - Sorokin , Elias , Eisenstadt and others - 2 hours .
10. Understanding of the world in the concept of M. Castells - 2 hours .
11. Sociological sense of the philosophy of dialogue - two hours .
12. Theories of subjectivity ( Touraine , Bourdieu , Giddens , Habermas , Archer ) - 2 hours .
13. The Queen is the only one: Cricital realism and Margaret S. Archer's great dialectical synthesis - 2 hours
14. Margaret S. Archer's theory of subject - 2 hours
15th The theory of social subjectivity - 2 hours .
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Learning outcomes
A student knows and understands contemporary social theories of social, knows and understands contemporary social, political, economic, cultural processes, with particular emphasis on globalization; he is able to interpret in the light of these phenomena and processes taking place in the contemporary world; knows the basic concepts of European sociological theories
Assessment criteria
A student has to choose between three forms of credit for the course
• oral exam, basic knowledge of material - dst; knowledge and full understanding of the material elements - db, full knowledge of the material, advanced understanding - very good, independent and creative understanding and full knowledge of the required material - very good plus
• translation of about 20 pages of text from English, French, German or Russian indicated by the lecturer, the area associated with the object (note, only for students who have left most one lecture per semester): Understanding, loyal, very good Polish language translation - very good, as above, but with a few shortcomings - db, accurate translation of text to understand the shortcomings - dst
• presentation on a given topic from the scope of the subject, a volume of about 50 pages (frames) beware! Only students who have left most one lecture per semester; Work done with full understanding, informative - very good, the work done with the understanding( no less than 75% of the material), honestly - db, work done with an understanding (of about 50 - 74% of the material), in principle, reliably - dst;
NOTE: electronic version no later than one month before the last semester lecture !!!
Note: Any objection to the entries in the USOS should be reported no later than a week after the exam date !!!
Bibliography
J. Turner, Struktura teorii socjologicznych. Wydanie nowe, Warszawa 2004
J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej. Wydanie nowe, Warszawa 2002
P. Baert, F.Carreira da Silva, Teorie społeczne w XX wieku i dzisiaj, Kraków 2013
K. Wielecki, Kryzys i socjologia, Warszawa 2012
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