1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Social Sciences
3. winter term 2020/2021
4. WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Sociology - First-cycle Erasmus programme
5. Introduction to Sociology

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Introduction to Sociology - course description

Aim of the course

To make students familiar with basic sociological ideas and definitions used to describe social life and social processes.

Prerequisites

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No special prerequisites.

Scope

Lectures:

1. A human as a social being.
2. Social perspective and social imagination.
3. Sociology and its’ functions.
4. Social structure and its’ components.
5. Social positions, social roles and social status.
6. Social mobility and different types of societies.
7. Social institutions and the process of institutionalization.

 

Classes

1. Social collectivities. A social group as an example of organized social collectivity.
2. Social categories and types. The structure of different groups.
3. Social ties in different groups.
4. Social interactions and types of interactions.
5. The process of social control.
6. The socialization process. Elements of socialization. Types of socialization.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures: Explaining and lecturing. Lecture with discussion. Multimedia learning process.

Classes: Some classes will be a discussion of critical and analytical terms and methods of sociology. Small groups discussion.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture: individual oral examination.

Classes: Take-home essay on a lecturer-decided topic (5-6 pages).

The final grade is average of the lecture and classes.

Recommended reading

1. Giddens A., Sociology, Cambridge, 2006.
2. Macionis J., Sociology (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991.
3. Ritzer G., Goodman D. J., Sociological Theory, Sixth Edition. McGraw Hill, 2004.
4. Scott J., Marshal G., A Dictionary of Sociology, Oxford 2005.

                                                           

Further reading

1.       Haralambos M., Holborn M., Sociology. Themes and Perspectives, Collins 2008.

Notes

the subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.

Modified by dr Jarosław Wagner (last modification: 08-07-2020 17:37)