Course Information

B_SPSS Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Social Sciences – Department of Social Sciences – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dita Egertová

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. THE DUALITY OF HEDONISM IN THE AMBIVALENT WORLD OF POLARITIES. European Journal of Science and Theology, Iasi (Romania): Technical University of Iasi, 2019, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 203-213. ISSN 1841-0464.
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010

recommended literature
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Anýžová, Petra, Petr Hampl, Dana Hamplová, Marek Loužek, Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith, Simona Weidnerová: Moc krásy: Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.

B_SPSS Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dita Egertová

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. THE DUALITY OF HEDONISM IN THE AMBIVALENT WORLD OF POLARITIES. European Journal of Science and Theology, Iasi (Romania): Technical University of Iasi, 2019, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 203-213. ISSN 1841-0464.

recommended literature
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Anýžová, Petra, Petr Hampl, Dana Hamplová, Marek Loužek, Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith, Simona Weidnerová: Moc krásy: Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.

B_SPSS Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ivana Plačková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_SPSS/pMPH: each even Tuesday 8:45–9:29 E225, each even Tuesday 9:30–10:15 E225, each even Tuesday 10:30–11:14 E225, each even Tuesday 11:15–12:00 E225, O. Roubal

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. THE DUALITY OF HEDONISM IN THE AMBIVALENT WORLD OF POLARITIES. European Journal of Science and Theology, Iasi (Romania): Technical University of Iasi, 2019, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 203-213. ISSN 1841-0464.

recommended literature
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Anýžová, Petra, Petr Hampl, Dana Hamplová, Marek Loužek, Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith, Simona Weidnerová: Moc krásy: Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.

B_SPSS Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dita Egertová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_SPSS/cMPH: each odd Thursday 12:15–12:59 E225, each odd Thursday 13:00–13:45 E225, O. Roubal
B_SPSS/pMPH: each odd Thursday 10:30–11:14 E225, each odd Thursday 11:15–12:00 E225, O. Roubal

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. THE DUALITY OF HEDONISM IN THE AMBIVALENT WORLD OF POLARITIES. European Journal of Science and Theology, Iasi (Romania): Technical University of Iasi, 2019, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 203-213. ISSN 1841-0464.

recommended literature
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Anýžová, Petra, Petr Hampl, Dana Hamplová, Marek Loužek, Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith, Simona Weidnerová: Moc krásy: Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.

B_SPSS Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Lenka Pokorná

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_SPSS/cMPH: each odd Thursday 8:45–9:29 E125, each odd Thursday 9:30–10:15 E125, O. Roubal
B_SPSS/pMPH: each even Thursday 8:45–9:29 E125, each even Thursday 9:30–10:15 E125, O. Roubal

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. THE DUALITY OF HEDONISM IN THE AMBIVALENT WORLD OF POLARITIES. European Journal of Science and Theology, Iasi (Romania): Technical University of Iasi, 2019, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 203-213. ISSN 1841-0464.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.

recommended literature
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Anýžová, Petra, Petr Hampl, Dana Hamplová, Marek Loužek, Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith, Simona Weidnerová: Moc krásy: Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.

B_SPSS Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Lenka Pokorná

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_SPSS/cMPH: each odd Wednesday 10:30–11:14 E127, each odd Wednesday 11:15–12:00 E127, O. Roubal
B_SPSS/pMPH: each odd Wednesday 8:45–9:29 E127, each odd Wednesday 9:30–10:15 E127, O. Roubal

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. THE DUALITY OF HEDONISM IN THE AMBIVALENT WORLD OF POLARITIES. European Journal of Science and Theology, Iasi (Romania): Technical University of Iasi, 2019, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 203-213. ISSN 1841-0464.

recommended literature
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Anýžová, Petra, Petr Hampl, Dana Hamplová, Marek Loužek, Petr Matějů, Michael L. Smith, Simona Weidnerová: Moc krásy: Pomáhá krása a atraktivita k životnímu úspěchu? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each odd Thursday 8:45–9:29 E228, each odd Thursday 9:30–10:15 E228, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Thursday 8:45–9:29 E228, each even Thursday 9:30–10:15 E228, except Thu 4. 4. ; and Thu 4. 4. 8:45–10:15 E306, O. Roubal
B_Spss/vMPH: Fri 1. 3. 17:30–19:00 E225, 19:15–20:45 E225, Fri 29. 3. 17:30–19:00 E225, F. Zich

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Roubal, Ondřej. Policy of life chances and policy of life styles under the conditions of consumer culture. European Journal of Science and Theology, 2015, Vol. 11, No. 6, p. 15-25.
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010

recommended literature
• ZICH, František, Petra ANÝŽOVÁ, Petr MATĚJŮ, Ondřej ROUBAL, Helena KUBÁTOVÁ a František ZNEBEJÁNEK. Konfrontace hodnot v pozdní modernitě: Česko a Hlučínsko v evropském kontextu. Vydání první. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2016. 302 s. Edice
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Roubal, Ondřej. Fast time digital age and lifestyle changes. In. Matúš, J., D. Petranová (eds.). Conference Proccedings from International Scientific Conference „Marketing Identity 2015: Digital life. Trnava: Faculty of Mass Media Communication, Univers
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009

not specified
• ROUBAL, Ondřej. Sociology of Branding: "Just do it" in the "No Limits" World. Communication Today, FMK UCM Trnava: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzity sv. Cyrila a Metóda, 2017, roč. 8, č. 1, s. 40-52. ISSN 1338-130X
• KOMÁREK, S.: Evropa na rozcestí. Prague: Academia, 2015

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each odd Thursday 8:45–9:29 E129, each odd Thursday 9:30–10:15 E129, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Thursday 8:45–9:29 E129, each even Thursday 9:30–10:15 E129, O. Roubal

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Learning outcomes

Basic theoretical knowledge, orientation in problems and context of monitored topics. At the same time, the practical skills and skills of applying the acquired knowledge in a real environment of professional activities. The learning outcomes are the support and development of the profile of the educated practitioner.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, Ondřej. Policy of life chances and policy of life styles under the conditions of consumer culture. European Journal of Science and Theology, 2015, Vol. 11, No. 6, p. 15-25.
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Roubal, Ondřej, Zich, František. Marketingová sociologie. Marketingové komunikace a moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS, 2015, 121 s.
• Roubal, O., F. Znebejánek. Teorie modernity a modernizace. In Kubátová, H. a kol. Mezigenerační proměny způsobu života na Hlučínsku. Praha: SLON, 2015, s. 63-74.
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.

recommended literature
• Roubal, Ondřej. Fast time digital age and lifestyle changes. In. Matúš, J., D. Petranová (eds.). Conference Proccedings from International Scientific Conference „Marketing Identity 2015: Digital life. Trnava: Faculty of Mass Media Communication, Univers
• ZICH, František, Petra ANÝŽOVÁ, Petr MATĚJŮ, Ondřej ROUBAL, Helena KUBÁTOVÁ a František ZNEBEJÁNEK. Konfrontace hodnot v pozdní modernitě: Česko a Hlučínsko v evropském kontextu. Vydání první. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2016. 302 s. Edice
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Zdeněk Sloboda (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each even Thursday 10:30–11:14 E127, each even Thursday 11:15–12:00 E127, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cMVMO: each odd Tuesday 12:15–12:59 M17, each odd Tuesday 13:00–13:45 M17, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Thursday 8:45–9:29 E127, each even Thursday 9:30–10:15 E127, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMVMO: each even Tuesday 12:15–12:59 M17, each even Tuesday 13:00–13:45 M17, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/vMPH: Fri 17. 2. 17:30–19:00 E223, Sat 1. 4. 14:00–15:30 E124, 15:45–17:15 E124, Z. Sloboda

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.

recommended literature
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each odd Tuesday 8:45–9:29 E227, each odd Tuesday 9:30–10:15 E227, except Tue 1. 3. ; and Tue 15. 3. 8:00–8:44 E227, Tue 29. 3. 8:00–8:44 E227, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cMVMO: each odd Thursday 14:00–14:44 M15, each odd Thursday 14:45–15:30 M15, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Tuesday 8:45–9:29 E227, each even Tuesday 9:30–10:15 E227, except Tue 19. 4. ; and Wed 13. 4. 8:45–10:15 E128, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMVMO: each even Thursday 14:00–14:44 M15, each even Thursday 14:45–15:30 M15, M. Tomčík

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999

recommended literature
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ivana Plačková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each even Wednesday 10:30–11:14 E127, each even Wednesday 11:15–12:00 E127, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cMVMO: each even Wednesday 10:30–11:14 M15, each even Wednesday 11:15–12:00 M15, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each odd Wednesday 10:30–11:14 E127, each odd Wednesday 11:15–12:00 E127, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMVMO: each odd Wednesday 12:15–12:59 M15, each odd Wednesday 13:00–13:45 M15, M. Tomčík

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O. Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: VŠFS-EUPRESS, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7408-087-6
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010

recommended literature
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Bc. Jan Peterec

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each even Tuesday 15:45–16:29 E126, each even Tuesday 16:30–17:15 E126, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cMVMO: each odd Monday 14:00–14:44 M26, each odd Monday 14:45–15:30 M26, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Tuesday 14:00–14:44 E126, each even Tuesday 14:45–15:30 E126, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMVMO: each odd Monday 12:15–12:59 M26, each odd Monday 13:00–13:45 M26, M. Tomčík

Prerequisites

Sociology B1 completed.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Roubal, O.: Sociologie a pozdně moderní společnost. Praha: EUPRESS-VŠFS, 2014.
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.

recommended literature
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• B_SMV Sociology of Interpersonal Relationships

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
General note: Aa0.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Iva Petrová (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Bc. Jan Peterec

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMMO: each odd Tuesday 10:30–11:14 M22, each odd Tuesday 11:15–12:00 M22, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/cM12PH: each even Wednesday 14:00–14:44 E122, each even Wednesday 14:45–15:30 E122, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cM34PH: each even Thursday 12:15–12:59 E222, each even Thursday 13:00–13:45 E222, I. Petrová
B_Spss/pMMO: each even Tuesday 10:30–11:14 M22, each even Tuesday 11:15–12:00 M22, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Wednesday 12:15–12:59 E222, each even Wednesday 13:00–13:45 E222, O. Roubal
B_Spss/vMMO: Fri 1. 3. 13:45–15:15 M27, Fri 19. 4. 17:15–18:45 M27, Sat 4. 5. 8:00–9:30 M27, M. Tomčík

Prerequisites

Sociology B1 completed.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The objective of the course is to describe the principles of traditional, modern, postmodern and global society in the context of sociological theories. The student should be able to analyse a sociological discourse about a character of a postmodern society and he/she should learn to interpret chosen sociological conceptions of contemporary time in the conditions of the accelerated global processes. Moreover, the student should know the globalization of economic, political and cultural processes; especially the social consequences of these processes. The student should be properly informed about the alternatives of the ‘open’ world, hope and opportunity of the global period of the society and should be able to identify global risks from environmental, political and social points of view. The course provides the interpretation of the work of Z. Baumann and his conception of ‘liquid modernity’ as an alternative of the form of the global society. The student should analyse the problem of increasing individualisation and uncertainty in the society, point out signals of the new forms of global lifestyles and to discuss the questions of commercialization of day-to-day living in the conditions of welfare society. In addition to, the objective of the course is also to put an emphasis on the importance of the social effects of marketing communications as an intervention factor in a social area. Finally, the student should be able to introduce and explain the phenomenon of a human happiness in the welfare society and a participation of marketing communications on the imaginations about happiness and a choice of the individual strategies of its achievement.

Syllabus

• 1. The current sociological discourse about a character of the postmodern society (from traditional to global society). Principles of the traditional, modern, postmodern and global society – What society do we live in?
• 2. Theory of modernity. Organized modernity and the term of ‘an organized person’.
• 3. Theory of modernization. Specification of the first and the second wave of modernization theories, emancipation theory of the modernization and identification of social, political and economic consequences of modernity.
• 4. Disputes over the character of globalization. The terms – globalization, globalism. Liberal and socio-critical point of view of the process of globalization. The first and second phase of globalization. ‘The winners’ and ‘the losers’ of globalization.
• 5. Globalisation of economics. Deregulation, privatization, liberalization of economics and its connections to the society. Economics without borders, politics without power etc.
• 6. Globalisation and a social state. Typology of social states, increasing of social risks, consequences of the changes of a character of work, prekarization of work, problems of employability in the modern society, flexibility of work and its consequences.
• 7. Globalisation of politics. European integration, particularism, universalism, social movements, problems of present nationalism, ethnic a racial issues, multiculturalism and the policy of identities.
• 8. Globalization of culture. New cultural phenomenon (hybridity and creolization), carnival society, new global lifestyles, commercialisation of day-to-day living, hedonism.
• 9. Theory of liquid modernity by Z. Bauman.
• 10. Living in the period of liquid modernity. From mentality of a game warden, a gardener to mentality of a hunter, the changes of life trajectories of man.
• 11. The life as an artistic work. Art of self-identification and the construction of identity in period of ‘hunters and players’ society.
• 12. Living in the period of welfare society. The syndrome of a big wolf and looking for happiness in welfare society. Phenomenon of human happiness and a choice of individual strategies for its achievement.

Literature

required literature
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.

recommended literature
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study (giving instructions for an individual preparation and self-study based on the required and recommended reading); compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

The course is completed by the fulfilling of requirements. Students gain credits for a successful defence of the seminar paper. The defence includes a critical discussion and peer evaluation. Presentation of the seminar paper takes about 25 – 30minutes. One of the following topics should be chosen: a) secondary analysis of the current sociological research concerning the issues of the knowledge of human well-being or b) an identification of unintended effects of marketing statements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• B_SMV Sociology of Interpersonal Relationships

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
General note: Aa0.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Iva Petrová (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Monika Kozlerová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMMO: each odd Wednesday 11:15–12:00 M27, each odd Wednesday 12:15–12:59 M27, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/cMPH: each even Wednesday 12:15–12:59 E123, each even Wednesday 13:00–13:45 E123, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMMO: each even Wednesday 13:00–13:45 M27, each even Wednesday 14:00–14:44 M27, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Wednesday 10:30–11:14 E123, each even Wednesday 11:15–12:00 E123, O. Roubal
B_Spss/uMPH: Tue 20. 3. 17:30–19:00 E124, Tue 3. 4. 17:30–19:00 E124, 19:15–20:45 E124, F. Zich
B_Spss/vMMO: Sat 11. 2. 8:00–9:30 M15, 9:45–11:15 M15, Sat 25. 2. 9:45–11:15 M22, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/vMPH: Fri 9. 3. 12:00–13:30 E227, Fri 13. 4. 12:00–13:30 E227, 13:45–15:15 E227, F. Zich

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Znalosti v rozsahu 1. ročníku bakalářského studia z předmětů Sociologie B1 a Sociologie B2 (Sociologie C)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives (in Czech)

Cílem předmětu je seznámit posluchače s akutálními sociologickými problémy pozdně moderní společnosti, upozornit na hlavní globalizační procesy a jejich ekonomické, sociální, kulturní a politické dopady.

Syllabus

• Obsah přednášek: 1. Soudobý sociologický diskurz o povaze pozdně moderní společnosti - koncepce společnosti pozdní doby. Teorie pozdní modernity Z. Baumana: individualizace a život v éře nejistoty, proměny životních trajektorií člověka, ohniska nejistoty v globálním prostoru; 2. Spory o povahu globalizace. Globalizace a její projevy v kulturní, ekonomické a sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury, růst sociálních nerovností, problém chudoby, otázky sociální spravedlnosti; 3. Teorie modernizace, dvě vlny modernizačních teorií, emancipační teorie modernizace, důsledky modernity; 4. Globalizace a sociální stát, typologie sociálních států, vzestup sociálních rizik, důsledky změn povahy práce, prekarizace práce, nástup světa sítí, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti, sociální důsledky flexibilizace práce; 5. Globalizace a politika, evropská integrace, partikularismus a univerzalismus, sociální hnutí, problémy soudobého nacionalismu, etnické a rasové problémy, otázky multikulturalismu a politika identit; 6. Globalizace a kultura - nové kulturní fenomény globální kultury (hybridita a kreolizace), karnevalová kultura, nové globální životní styly jako projevy individualizace, spotřební společnost, komercionaliazce každodennosti, hédonismus;

Literature

required literature
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Keller, J.: Tři sociální světy. Praha: Slon, 2010
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.

recommended literature
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
• Bauman, Z. : Umění života. Praha: Academia, 2010
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Bauman, Z.: Tekuté časy-život ve věku nejistoty. Praha: Academia, 2008
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009

Teaching methods (in Czech)

Výuka probíhá formou přednášek a seminářů. Přednášky jsou tematicky členěny, studenti jsou seznámeni se základními teoretickými koncepcemi, přístupy a myšlenkami autorů. Studentům je doporučena literatura. V rámci seminářů studenti vystupují s vlastními prezentacemi na vybraná sociologická témata, která jsou podložena relevantní sociologickou literaturou. Následuje kritická diskuze.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Předmět je ukončen formou zápočtu na základě vystoupení s prezentací na vybrané sociologické téma - projekt prezentace musí být úspěšně obhájen v rámci kritické diskuze ostatních posluchačů a vyučujícího.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin KS/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. Zdeněk Cecava, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Monika Kozlerová

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Znalosti v rozsahu 1. ročníku bakalářského studia z předmětů Sociologie a Sociologické poznání a výzkum

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives (in Czech)

Cílem předmětu je seznámit posluchače s akutálními sociologickými problémy pozdně moderní společnosti s vazbou na hlavní globalizační procesy a jejich ekonomické, sociální, kulturní a politické dopady.

Syllabus (in Czech)

• Obsah přednášek: - soudobá sociologie, přehled hlavních směrů a literatury zabývající se poznáváním a interpretací společenských procesů pozdně moderní doby, koncepty pozdně moderní společnosti - teorie modernizace, dvě vlny modernizačních teorií, emancipační teorie modernizace, důsledky modernity; - spory o povahu globalizace, první a druhá fáze globalizace, globalizace a její projevy v kulturní, ekonomické a sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury, růst sociálních nerovností, problém chudoby, otázky sociální spravedlnosti; - globalizace a sociální stát, typologie sociálních států, vzestup sociálních rizik, důsledky změn povahy práce, prekarizace práce, nástup světa sítí, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti, sociální důsledky flexibilizace práce; - globalizace a politika, evropská integrace, partikularismus a univerzalismus, sociální hnutí, problémy soudobého nacionalismu, etnické a rasové problémy, otázky multikulturalismu a politika identit; - globalizace a kultura - nové kulturní fenomény globální kultury (hybridita a kreolizace), karnevalová kultura, nové globální životní styly jako projevy individualizace, spotřební společnost a komercionaliazce každodennosti - efekty marketingové komunikace, problém identity, hédonismus; Tematické členění: 1. Soudobá sociologie a diskuze o povaze pozdně moderní společnosti - oblasti sociologického zájmu v souvislosti s procesem globalizačních procesů, 2. Teorie modernizace a důsledky modernity 3. Spory o povahu globalizace - fáze a sféry globalizace, ekonomické, sociální, politické a kulturní důsledky globalizačních vlivů 4. Globalizace a sociální stát - krize sociálního státu a sociální rizika 5. Globalizace a politika - univerzalismus a partikularismus, vzestup nacionalismu a otázky multkulturní společnosti 6. Globalizace a kultura - hybridizace kulturních jevů a nové formy globálních životních stylů, individualizace a identita

Literature

required literature
• • Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• • Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005
• • Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html

Teaching methods (in Czech)

Výuka probíhá formou přednášek a seminářů. Přednášky jsou tematicky členěny, studenti jsou seznámeni se základními teoretickými koncepcemi, přístupy a myšlenkami autorů. Studentům je doporučena literatura. V rámci seminářů studenti vystupují s vlastními prezentacemi na vybraná sociologická témata, která jsou podložena relevantní sociologickou literaturou. Následuje kritická diskuze.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Information on completion of the course: ISP
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
General note: ISP.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. Zdeněk Cecava, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Information on completion of the course: ISP
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
General note: ISP.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. Zdeněk Cecava, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/pMMO: each even Thursday 10:30–11:14 M17, each even Thursday 11:15–12:00 M17, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Tuesday 14:00–14:44 E306, each even Tuesday 14:45–15:30 E306, O. Roubal
B_Spss/semMMO: each odd Thursday 10:30–11:14 M17, each odd Thursday 11:15–12:00 M17, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/semM1PH: each even Wednesday 10:30–11:14 E123, each even Wednesday 11:15–12:00 E123, O. Roubal
B_Spss/semM2PH: each odd Wednesday 14:00–14:44 E122, each odd Wednesday 14:45–15:30 E122, O. Roubal
B_Spss/semM3PH: each odd Tuesday 15:45–16:29 E222, each odd Tuesday 16:30–17:15 E222, O. Roubal
B_Spss/sMPH: Wed 10. 11. 19:15–20:45 E225, Wed 24. 11. 17:30–19:00 E225, 19:15–20:45 E225, O. Roubal
B_Spss/sMRKL: Wed 6. 10. 15:45–17:15 K205, Wed 13. 10. 14:00–15:30 K205, 15:45–17:15 K205, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/vMPH: Sat 11. 12. 14:00–15:30 E128, 15:45–17:15 E128, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/vRMO: Sat 23. 10. 8:00–9:30 M26, 9:45–11:15 M26, Sat 13. 11. 8:00–9:30 M26, M. Tomčík

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Znalosti v rozsahu 1. ročníku bakalářského studia z předmětů Sociologie a Sociologické poznání a výzkum.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives (in Czech)

Cílem předmětu je seznámit posluchače s akutálními sociologickými problémy pozdně moderní společnosti, upozornit na hlavní globalizační procesy a jejich ekonomické, sociální, kulturní a politické dopady.

Syllabus (in Czech)

• Obsah přednášek: - soudobá sociologie, přehled hlavních směrů a literatury zabývající se poznáváním a interpretací společenských procesů pozdně moderní doby, koncepty pozdně moderní společnosti - teorie modernizace, dvě vlny modernizačních teorií, emancipační teorie modernizace, důsledky modernity; - spory o povahu globalizace, první a druhá fáze globalizace, globalizace a její projevy v kulturní, ekonomické a sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury, růst sociálních nerovností, problém chudoby, otázky sociální spravedlnosti; - globalizace a sociální stát, typologie sociálních států, vzestup sociálních rizik, důsledky změn povahy práce, prekarizace práce, nástup světa sítí, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti, sociální důsledky flexibilizace práce; - globalizace a politika, evropská integrace, partikularismus a univerzalismus, sociální hnutí, problémy soudobého nacionalismu, etnické a rasové problémy, otázky multikulturalismu a politika identit; - globalizace a kultura - nové kulturní fenomény globální kultury (hybridita a kreolizace), karnevalová kultura, nové globální životní styly jako projevy individualizace, spotřební společnost a komercionaliazce každodennosti - efekty marketingové komunikace, problém identity, hédonismus; Tematické členění: 1. Soudobá sociologie a diskuze o povaze pozdně moderní společnosti - oblasti sociologického zájmu v souvislosti s procesem globalizačních procesů, 2. Teorie modernizace a důsledky modernity 3. Spory o povahu globalizace - fáze a sféry globalizace, ekonomické, sociální, politické a kulturní důsledky globalizačních vlivů 4. Globalizace a sociální stát - krize sociálního státu a sociální rizika 5. Globalizace a politika - univerzalismus a partikularismus, vzestup nacionalismu a otázky multkulturní společnosti 6. Globalizace a kultura - hybridizace kulturních jevů a nové formy globálních životních stylů, individualizace a identita

Literature

required literature
• Budil, I.T. Střet kultur a vzpoura proti modernitě, 2002. www.blisty.cz/art/10753.html
• Hirt, J., Jakoubek, M.: Soudobé spory o multikulturalismus a politika identit. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2005.
• Keller, J. (2007): Teorie modernizace. Slon: Praha.
• Giddens, A: Sociologie, Argo, Praha, 1999
• Keller, J.: Soumrak sociálního státu. SLON: Praha, 2005.

recommended literature
• Beck,U: Riziková společnost, Sociologické nakladatelství, Praha 2004
• Fukuyama, F.: Velký rozvrat. Praha: Academia, 2006.
• Bauman, Z.: Tekutá modernita Mladá fronta, Praha, 2002
• Bělohradský, V.: Společnost nevolnosti, Slon, Praha, 2009
• Sedláček, T.: Ekonomie dobra a zla, 65. pole , Praha 2009

Teaching methods (in Czech)

Výuka probíhá formou přednášek a seminářů. Přednášky jsou tematicky členěny, studenti jsou seznámeni se základními teoretickými koncepcemi, přístupy a myšlenkami autorů. Studentům je doporučena literatura. V rámci seminářů studenti vystupují s vlastními prezentacemi na vybraná sociologická témata, která jsou podložena relevantní sociologickou literaturou. Následuje kritická diskuze.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Předmět je ukončen formou zápočtu na základě vystoupení s prezentací na vybrané sociologické téma - projekt prezentace musí být úspěšně obhájen v rámci kritické diskuze ostatních posluchačů a vyučujícího.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. Zdeněk Cecava, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMMO: each even Monday 14:00–14:44 M25, each even Monday 14:45–15:30 M25, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/cMRKLks: Thu 1. 10. 15:45–17:15 K206, 17:30–19:00 K206, Thu 8. 10. 14:00–15:30 K206, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/semM12PH: each odd Thursday 14:00–14:44 E129, each odd Thursday 14:45–15:30 E129, O. Roubal
B_Spss/semM34PH: each odd Tuesday 10:30–11:14 E129, each odd Tuesday 11:15–12:00 E129, O. Roubal
B_Spss/semRPH: each odd Thursday 12:15–12:59 E126, each odd Thursday 13:00–13:45 E126, O. Roubal
B_Spss/uMPH: Tue 8. 12. 19:15–20:45 E227, Tue 5. 1. 17:30–19:00 E227, 19:15–20:45 E227, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/vMMO: Sat 21. 11. 15:45–17:15 M25, Fri 4. 12. 19:00–20:30 M25, Sat 5. 12. 9:45–11:15 M25, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/vMPH: Sat 5. 12. 8:00–9:30 E125, Sat 9. 1. 14:00–15:30 E125, 15:45–17:15 E125, Z. Cecava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. Zdeněk Cecava, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Jan Rytina, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Michal Tomčík, PhD. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/pMPH: each odd Monday 10:30–11:14 E222, each odd Monday 11:15–12:00 E222, F. Zich
B_Spss/pMRVMO: each even Wednesday 10:30–11:14 M17, each even Wednesday 11:15–12:00 M17, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/pRPH: each even Wednesday 15:45–16:29 E225, each even Wednesday 16:30–17:15 E225, F. Zich
B_Spss/semMPH: each odd Wednesday 15:45–16:29 E227, each odd Wednesday 16:30–17:15 E227, O. Roubal
B_Spss/semMRVMO: Wed 8. 10. 10:30–11:14 M17, 11:15–12:00 M17, Wed 22. 10. 10:30–11:14 M17, 11:15–12:00 M17, Wed 5. 11. 10:30–11:14 M17, 11:15–12:00 M17, Wed 19. 11. 10:30–11:14 M17, 11:15–12:00 M17, Wed 3. 12. 10:30–11:14 M17, 11:15–12:00 M17, Wed 17. 12. 10:30–11:14 M17, 11:15–12:00 M17, M. Tomčík
B_Spss/semRPH: each odd Wednesday 14:00–14:44 E227, each odd Wednesday 14:45–15:30 E227, O. Roubal
B_Spss/sMPH: Wed 1. 10. 14:00–15:30 E129, Wed 15. 10. 14:00–15:30 E129, 15:45–17:15 E129, O. Roubal
B_Spss/uMRVKL: Tue 25. 11. 17:30–19:00 K303, 19:15–20:45 K303, Tue 2. 12. 19:15–20:45 K303, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/vMPH: Fri 5. 12. 13:45–15:15 E223, Fri 9. 1. 13:45–15:15 E223, 15:30–17:00 E223, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/vMRVMO: Sat 15. 11. 15:45–17:15 M14, Sat 29. 11. 11:30–13:00 M14, 14:00–15:30 M14, M. Tomčík

Prerequisites

Základní znalosti předmětu sociologie v rozsahu 1. ročníku.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

Anotace je stejná pro obě formy studia. Cíl kurzu: Seznámit studenty s problematikou otevřených aktuálních otázek soudobého světa tak, jak jsou zachyceny v současné sociologické literatuře.

Syllabus

• Tato osnova je určena pro prezenční studium, průběh výuky pro kombinované studium je uveden ve studijních materiálech formou metodického listu (ML). Obsah přednášek: - soudobá sociologie, přehled hlavních směrů a literatury zabývající se poznáváním a interpretací moderních a postmoderních společenských procesů; - globalizace a její projevy v sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury, důsledky změn povahy práce, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti, realizace člověka; - sociální soudržnost, sociální nerovnosti a možnosti jejich řešení, sociálně patologické jevy; - evropská integrace, sociální hnutí, problémy soudobého nacionalismu; - spotřební společnost a problémy masového chování, vliv sdělovacích prostředků, masová kultura; - vzdělání, obsah, funkčnost, přístup ke vzdělání; - sociální souvislosti demografického chování, nerovnost růstu, možnosti a problémy regulace; -ekologické otázky, zdroje, trvalý rozvoj, hranice růstu. Tematické členění: 1. Soudobá sociologie, úvodní přehled hlavních směrů a literatury zabývající se poznáváním a interpretací moderních a postmoderních společenských procesů, 2. Konflikt civilizací? (nacionalismu, náboženství); 3. Postmoderní společnost – individualizace Bauman; 4. Globalizace a její projevy v sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury – Reich; 5. Důsledky změn povahy práce, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti a realizace člověka; 6. Riziková společnost?- U. Beck; 7. Trvale udržitelný rozvoj – je možný? 8. Informační společnost, svoboda a manipulace, budoucnost– Lyotard, Chomski; 9. Sociologie politiky - třetí cesta A. Giddense. Jednotlivá témata budou prezentována na příkladu určené literatury. Předpokládá se úvod do problému formou přednášky a následná intenzivní samostatná práce v rámci semináře a vypracování seminární práce k zvolenému tématu.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Vyučující metody: přednáška + seminář Metody hodnocení: zápočet (3 kr) Seminární práce na zadané téma v rozsahu cca 5 stran.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin/semestr.

B_Spss Sociological Issues of Contemporary World

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. Zdeněk Cecava, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Roubal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Jan Rytina, CSc. (seminar tutor)
prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. Ing. František Zich, DrSc.
Subdepartment of Management and Marketing – Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Květoslava Dolejšová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_Spss/cMPH: each even Thursday 8:45–9:29 E129, each even Thursday 9:30–10:15 E129, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cMRVKL: each even Tuesday 12:15–12:59 K303, each even Tuesday 13:00–13:45 K303, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/cR1VPH: each odd Wednesday 8:45–9:29 E126, each odd Wednesday 9:30–10:15 E126, O. Roubal
B_Spss/cR23PH: each odd Wednesday 12:15–12:59 E025, each odd Wednesday 13:00–13:45 E025, O. Roubal
B_Spss/pMPH: each even Tuesday 8:45–9:29 E126, each even Tuesday 9:30–10:15 E126, F. Zich
B_Spss/pMRVKL: each odd Tuesday 12:15–12:59 K303, each odd Tuesday 13:00–13:45 K303, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/pRVPH: each odd Monday 12:15–12:59 E124, each odd Monday 13:00–13:45 E124, F. Zich
B_Spss/sMRVKL: Wed 5. 3. 19:15–20:45 K303, Wed 2. 4. 15:45–17:15 K303, Wed 9. 4. 15:45–17:15 K303, Z. Cecava
B_Spss/uMPH: Tue 11. 3. 14:00–15:30 E129, Tue 25. 3. 14:00–15:30 E129, 15:45–17:15 E129, F. Zich
B_Spss/uRPH: Tue 8. 4. 14:00–15:30 E127, Tue 22. 4. 14:00–15:30 E127, 15:45–17:15 E127, F. Zich
B_Spss/uVPH: Tue 12. 2. 14:00–15:30 E128, Tue 26. 2. 14:00–15:30 E128, 15:45–17:15 E128, F. Zich
B_Spss/vMPH: Sat 19. 4. 14:00–15:30 E223, 15:45–17:15 E223, Fri 2. 5. 12:00–13:30 E223, F. Zich
B_Spss/vRPH: Sat 16. 2. 14:00–15:30 E128, 15:45–17:15 E128, Fri 29. 2. 17:15–18:45 E128, F. Zich
B_Spss/vRVMO: Fri 14. 3. 13:45–15:15 M15, 15:30–17:00 M15, Fri 18. 4. 15:30–17:00 M26, J. Rytina
B_Spss/vVPH: Sat 5. 4. 14:00–15:30 E225, 15:45–17:15 E225, Fri 18. 4. 12:00–13:30 E225, F. Zich

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Základní znalosti předmětu sociologie v rozsahu výuky 1. ročníku.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives (in Czech)

Anotace je stejná pro obě formy studia. Cíl kurzu: Seznámit studenty s problematikou otevřených aktuálních otázek soudobého světa tak, jak jsou zachyceny v současné sociologické literatuře.

Syllabus (in Czech)

• Tato osnova je určena pro prezenční studium, průběh výuky pro kombinované studium je uveden ve studijních materiálech formou metodického listu (ML). Obsah přednášek: - soudobá sociologie, přehled hlavních směrů a literatury zabývající se poznáváním a interpretací moderních a postmoderních společenských procesů; - globalizace a její projevy v sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury, důsledky změn povahy práce, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti, realizace člověka; - sociální soudržnost, sociální nerovnosti a možnosti jejich řešení, sociálně patologické jevy; - evropská integrace, sociální hnutí, problémy soudobého nacionalismu; - spotřební společnost a problémy masového chování, vliv sdělovacích prostředků, masová kultura; - vzdělání, obsah, funkčnost, přístup ke vzdělání; - sociální souvislosti demografického chování, nerovnost růstu, možnosti a problémy regulace; -ekologické otázky, zdroje, trvalý rozvoj, hranice růstu. Tematické členění: 1. Soudobá sociologie, úvodní přehled hlavních směrů a literatury zabývající se poznáváním a interpretací moderních a postmoderních společenských procesů, 2. Konflikt civilizací? (nacionalismu, náboženství); 3. Postmoderní společnost – individualizace Bauman; 4. Globalizace a její projevy v sociální sféře, změny sociální struktury – Reich; 5. Důsledky změn povahy práce, problémy zaměstnanosti v moderní společnosti a realizace člověka; 6. Riziková společnost?- U. Beck; 7. Trvale udržitelný rozvoj – je možný? 8. Informační společnost, svoboda a manipulace, budoucnost– Lyotard, Chomski; 9. Sociologie politiky - třetí cesta A. Giddense. Jednotlivá témata budou prezentována na příkladu určené literatury. Předpokládá se úvod do problému formou přednášky a následná intenzivní samostatná práce v rámci semináře a vypracování seminární práce k zvolenému tématu.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Vyučující metody: přednáška, seminář; (2 hod./týden) Metody hodnocení: zápočet

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6/hodin semestr.

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