1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Social Sciences
3. winter term 2018/2019
4. Sociology - Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree
5. Social Transformations of Post-communist States

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Social Transformations of Post-communist States - course description

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the most important social, political and economic problems of the system transformation in post-communist societies (with particular reference to Poland).

Prerequisites

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Scope

1. Main features and causes of the collapse of the communist system.
2. Direct causes and the course of the change of government.
3. Problems of democratisation of the institutions of the political system.
4. Polish society facing the change of system. The living conditions and political culture.
5. Social impact of the transformation of the economic system – market orientation and privatization of the economy.
6. Psychosocial reactions of Poles to the new system of rules of social order, shock, anomia and trauma of the transformation. Dimensions and indicators of the phenomena.
7. Attempt to balance transformation in the political, economic and social terms. Winners-losers of the transformation.
8. Comparative analysis of the course and effects of transformation in Poland and other Central European States.

Teaching methods

Analysis of selected texts with the elements of discussion. Analysis of the content of the interviews.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

 

FORM OF ASSESSMENT OF CLASSES	REMARKS
Grade	Yes
Written work	On the basis of an analysis of the content of the in-depth interviews carried out by the students.
Criteria for grade assessment for classes.	Classes grade is derived from the evaluation of written works.

 

The final grade is the grade of the classes

Recommended reading

Madanipour A., Cars G., Allen J. (eds.) Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences, and Responses,  Routledge, London 2003

Frane A. (ed.) (2007) Social Capital and Governance: Old and New Members of the EU in Comparison,  LIT Verlag, Berlin

Chimiak G.  The Growth of Non-Governmental Development Organizations in Poland and Their Cooperation with Polish Aid, IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2016

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Ilona Wysmułek (eds.) Social Inequality and the Life Course: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013, IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2016.

 

Further reading

Dynamics of Social Structure: Poland’s Transformative Years, 1988–2013 | Edited by Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow with Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek and Ilona Wysmułek, IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2016

Rafał Smoczyński,  The Impact of the Entrepreneurs’ Catholic Religiosity upon Shadow Economy Activities in Poland after 1989. Approaching the moral community perspective, IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2015

Nowak, Marek (Ed.); Nowosielski, Michal (Ed.), Declining cities/ developing cities: Polish and German perspectives, Instytut Zachodni, Poznań 2008

Notes

Modified by dr Dorota Bazuń (last modification: 02-05-2018 10:15)