The course introduces sociology as a distinctive academic discipline with its own history, developments and paradigms. It provides an insight into classic sociological approaches and models of social reality. It focuses on the processes responsible for the rise of contemporary modern societies, such as industrialization, functional differentiation, social stratification, secularization, democratization, individualization, and globalization. Students will learn about the specifics of sociology as an academic discipline, its relationship to other academic disciplines, the relationship between theory and empirical research, the basic sociological approaches, models of society and corresponding sociological concepts. They will learn to understand and interpret sociological texts and apply basic sociological terminology.
- Učitel: Petra Tlčimuková