SylabUZ
| Course name | Monographic Lecture - Sociology of a Body |
| Course ID | 14.2-WP-SOC-WMON1 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Field of study | WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Sociology |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2020/2021 |
| Head faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| ECTS credits to win | 2 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
To acquaint students with the most important ideas and theories of sociology of the body. Students are familiar with representations and social uses of the human body in modern societies.
No special prerequisites
Brief history of sociology of the body.
Contemporary theories about body as a social phenomenon: f.e. P. Bourdieu, M. Faucault, J. Baudrillard.
How social institutions and systems become embodied in individuals.
The body as a social/individual construction.
How socioeconomic status can be evidenced through bodily markers.
Social institutions and systems become embedded in the body in another way: frameworks, or ways of seeing the world.
The body and a mass culture.
The body and oppression.
The body as a capital.
Lecture with discussion.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Assessed on a Passed/Failed basis only: no specific grade is awarded. 4 page take-home essay, lecturer-decided topic.
Shilling Ch., The Body and Social Theory, Sage Press 1993.
Malacrida C., Low J., Sociology of the Body, Oxford 2008.
Students can discus and propose the title of essay with the lecturer, in case of no propositions the title will be given by the lecturer.
*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)
