The aim of the subject is to familiarize the student with different dimensions of cultural diversity, its genesis, contemporary forms and meaning for social life (at its individual levels) and the methods of its scientific approach. The subject is to sensitize on social inequalities and to indicate examples of individual and collective reactions to the experience of cultural difference.
Prerequisites
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Scope
Lectures:
The concept of culture, dimensions of cultural diversity in the context of social life
Conceptual categories: cultural contact, clash of cultures, diffusion, assimilation, accommodation, syncretism, enkulturacja, social distance, cultural relativism, cultural borderland, tradition, cultural heritage, memory, revitalization
Traditional world without alternative and contemporary multicultural world; collectivism and individualism
Multiculturalism and individual identity and functioning of social microstructures
Multiculturalism and local and regional life
Multiculturalism and social life at the macrostructural level
Global processes and multiculturalism
Classes:
Multiculturalism - a phenomenon, a political project or a philosophy?
The manifestations of multiculturalism - in the world and in Poland
Intercultural competence and anthropological imagination
Research on multicultural environments and analysis of the phenomenon of multiculturalism - examples of implementation (area, methodology, research situations, research conclusions, narrative methods on research and presentation of applications)
Teaching methods
Conversational lecture, discussions, work with source text, presentations.
Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification
Outcome description
Outcome symbols
Methods of verification
The class form
Assignment conditions
Lecture – written exam; the condition is to obtain min. 50% points.
Classes – written work / multimedia presentation prepared independently by the student and presented during classes.
The final grade in the subject is the arithmetic mean of grades from the classes and the lecture.
Recommended reading
Crowder G. (2013), Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction, John Wiley & Sons.
Eller J. D., Cultural Anthropology. Global Forces, Local Lives, Routledge New York and London, 2009.
Jacobs M. D. (2016), Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, John Wiley & Sons.
Jupp P. C. (2009), Sociology of Spirituality, ASHGATE PUBLISHING.
Mc Guigan J. (2002), Culture and the Public Sphere, Routledge, London and New York.
Romaniszyn K. (ed.) (2008), Culture and Migration. The Cultural Implications of International Migrations in the Light of Fieldwork Evidence, Nomos, Kraków.
Further reading
Additional materials prepared by the teacher.
Notes
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Modified by dr Magdalena Pokrzyńska (last modification: 23-04-2020 07:35)
