2023/2024
Современная социология в глобальном контексте
Статус:
Дисциплина общефакультетского пула
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is aimed at giving students theoretical resources of social sciences to reflect on various social and economic phenomena in contemporary society. Along with classical sociological theories, the development of sociological knowledge gave rise to new approaches and concepts analyzing fundamental social problems and actual issues in the global agenda. The course covers various topics: global inequalities, statuses and identities, markets and money, work and consumption, crime and health, media and new forms of sociation. It exposes the structure of social sciences and the relationships between subfields to provide the polemics between different approaches. Students will learn the nature of the sociological perspective and be able to evaluate the sociological debates surrounding the processes of globalization.
Learning Objectives
- Familiarity with the main concepts and schools in social theory, with context of development of modern social thought
- Ability to apply basic conceptual tools of sociology for studying basic problems of contemporary social life
- Skills of discussion, critical analysis and evaluation of texts in social sciences
Expected Learning Outcomes
- ability to differentiate the types of social stratification systems and analyze the social inequality on varoius dimentions
- Knows the principles of the Soviet and post-Soviet family policy.
- - know the basic theoretical approaches to the analysis of digital media the main directions of the modern sociological analysis of digital youth;
- know main concepts related to migration, ethnicity, inequality
- Students are able to learn and demonstrate skills in the field of social theory and key sociological concepts
- Able to define and apply sociological concepts and theories to analyse social phenomena of contemporary society
- Able to define and apply the concepts of economic sociology, homo economicus, homo sociologicus, embededdness, trust, the substantive and the formal meaning of ‘economic’, new economic sociology, markets as mechanism versus markets as institution, money, social meaning of money, earmarking.
- Able to define and apply the concepts of race and ethnicity, racial discrimination, old (biological) racism and new (cultural) racism, multiple racisms and institutional racism, ‘critical race theory’.
- Able to define and apply the concepts of religion, profane and sacred, secularisation thesis, measurements of secularization, religious forms and religious movements, fundamentalism, ‘clash of civilisations’, jihadism.
- Able to define and apply the concepts of ‘new ethnicities’ and situational identity, ethnic inequality, globalisation of ethnicity, push factors’ and ‘pull factors’ models, ethnic conflict, assimilation and integration, ethnicity and health, global differences in health, ‘mobilities research’.
- Know and understand the three different forms of neo-institutionalism (historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism and behavioural institutionalism) and be able to apply them
- Familiarity with the main sociological theories and concepts of religion.
- Familiarity with the main sociological theories of marriage and family formation.
- to know main models of social stratification used in empirical researches of social inequality
- Students are familiar with connection between religion and globalization
- Students have understanding on how religion is present in the public sphere
- Students understand the genealogy of the concept f religion
- Basing on sociological concepts explain why does biomedicine possess a unique degree of status and power in contemporary society?
- Critically examine the modes of biomedicine as a device of social control used to reduce social deviance and to support dominated social order
- learn meanings of 'bureaucracy', its features (advantages and disadvantages these features provide), its functions, its limitations, its types
- Identify the main concepts and schools in contemporary social theory, with context of development of modern social thought
- know basic approaches to the sociological studies of organisations
- Ability to give definitions of work from the sociological perspective, identify different types of work
- analyse and critically examine the relationship between work and gigeconomy.
- explain the role of social capital and weak ties on the job market
Course Contents
- Introduction to Sociology
- Social Stratification and Class Inequality
- Race, Ethnicity and Migration
- Family
- Religion
- Work & Employment
- The Media
- Markets and Money
- Global health and medicine
- Organizations and Institutions
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.25 * Final test + 0.25 * Midterm test + 0.15 * Ответ на вопрос + 0.15 * Ответ на вопрос + 0.1 * Семинары + 0.1 * Семинары
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Centuries of childhood : a social history of family life, Aries, P., 1962
- Economy and society. Vol.1: ., Weber, M., 2013
- Epistemology and practice : Durkheim's The elementary forms of religious life, Rawls, A. W., 2009
- Evans, P., & Rauch, J. E. (1999). Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of “Weberian” State Structures on Economic Growth. American Sociological Review, 64(5), 748–765. https://doi.org/10.2307/2657374
- Getting a job : a study of contacts and careers, Granovetter, M., 1995
- Handbook of marriage and the family, , 2013
- Handbook of social studies in health and medicine, , 2001
- Levine, R., Acker, J., Baca-Zinn, M., Collins, P. H., Cox, O., Davis, K., … Wright, E. O. (2006). Social Class and Stratification : Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates (Vol. 2nd ed). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=634844
- Principles of economic sociology, Swedberg, R., 2003
- Sociology of religion : a reader, , 2019
- Sociology, Giddens, A., 2017
- Sociology, Giddens, A., 2017
- The architecture of markets : an economic sociology of twenty-first-century capitalist societies, Fligstein, N., 2001
- The economic sociology of capitalism, , 2005
- The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, Weber, M., 1992
- The sociological imagination, Mills, C. W., 2000
- The sociology of money : economics, reason & contemporary society, Dodd, N., 1995
- The sociology of religion : theoretical and comparative perspectives, Hamilton, M., 2002
- The sociology of religion, Weber, M., 1993
- Zygmunt Bauman, & Tim May. (2004). Thinking Sociologically: Vol. Second edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Радаев, В. В. (2010). Viviana Zelizer Social Meaning of Money (translated in Russian). Moscow, HSE, 2004. ; Зелизер В. Социальное значение денег. М. ГУ-ВШЭ, 2004. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.14901D0B
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Bourdieu : a critical reader, , 1999
- Essential concepts in sociology, Giddens, A., 2014
- The Communist manifesto, Marx, K., 1998