General Sociology 2751-BN-S1-1-PS
The course program covers the following topics:
1. Organizational classes
2. A sociological view of the social world. Sociology as a science.
a. Various definitions of sociology
b. Common-sense thinking and scientific reflection
c. The essence of the sociological view of the social world
d. The specificity of learning about social phenomena. Cognitive status of sociology
e. Subject of sociology and methods of sociological cognition
f. Subdisciplines of sociology and directions of their interests. General sociology and specific sociologies
g. Sociology among other social sciences
h. The specific nature of social sciences and cognition of social phenomena. Basic ontological and epistemological dilemmas of sociology
3. From behavior to society - elements of social life
a. Human behavior and its sources
b. Social action and symbolic meanings
c. Symbolic interaction and its sociological interpretations
d. Collective action and social institutions
e. Society and its dimensions
4. Culture, nature, socialization
a. Sociological understanding of culture and nature
b. Relations between culture and nature
c. Essence and types of socialization. Acquired competences
d. Principles of socialization and its stages
e. Basic socialization agendas
5. Social control and the axionormative system
a. The essence and types of social control
b. Means of social control
c. The process of juridification of social control
d. Elements and subsystems of the axionormative system
e. Conformism and deviation
f. Conflicts and inconsistencies of the axionormative system
6. Social structure
a. The concept of social structure and its types
b. Social differentiation and its dimensions
c. Schemes of social structure
d. Reproduction of social structure and social mobility
Total student workload
Learning outcomes - social competencies
Teaching methods
Expository teaching methods
- informative (conventional) lecture
Type of course
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
- written exam: 3 open questions, the answer to each of them is scored on a 0-10 point scale (maximum number of points - a total of 30 points)
Grades:
0-14.5 points - unsatisfactory (2)
15-18 points - satisfactory (3)
18.5-20.5 points - satisfactory plus (3.5)
21-24 points - good (4)
24.5-26.5 points - good plus (4.5)
27-30 points - very good (5)
Practical placement
n.a.
Bibliography
P. Sztompka, Socjologia. Analiza społeczeństwa, Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków 2002.
B. Szacka, Wprowadzenie do socjologii, Oficyna Naukowa, Warszawa 2008.
A. Giddens, Socjologia. Wydanie nowe, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2022.
J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2005.
S. Bruce, Socjologia, Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, Warszawa 2012.
Socjologia. Lektury, pod red. P. Sztompki i M. Kuci, Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków 2006.
Współczesne teorie socjologiczne, Tom I i II, wyb. A. Jasińska-Kania, L. Nijakowski, J. Szacki i M. Ziółkowski, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2006.
J.H. Turner, Struktura teorii socjologicznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2004.
Elementy teorii socjologicznych, wyb. W. Derczyński, A. Jasińska-Kania i J. Szacki, PWN, Warszawa 1975.
K.O. Korgen (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, William Paterson University, New Jersey 2017.
Additional information
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