1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Nauk Społecznych
3. semestr zimowy 2018/2019
4. WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Socjologia - Program Erasmus drugiego stopnia
5. The Problems of Social Stratification

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The Problems of Social Stratification - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

The aim of the subject is providing students of knowledge of different dimensions of social stratification (f.e. cultural, professional, class, regional, generational and other dimensions). Providing knowledge of different perspectives in social stratification theories and about results of empirical studies about it.

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

No special prerequisites

Zakres tematyczny

Lecture:

1. Social problems. Social stratification.
2. Theories of social stratification.
3. Theories about elits.
4. Theories of national and ethnical divisions.
5. New Middle class.
6. Underclass conceptions.

 

Classes:

1. The old and the new dimensions of division of society.
2. Participating in public sphere.
3. Social exclusion.
4. Digital exclusion problems.
5. Poverty as a social problem.
6. Social conflicts and stratification.

Metody kształcenia

Lecture: lecture with discussion.

Class: class discussion. Small groups discussion. Multimedia learning process – using Power Point presentations, use of filmstrips, recordings etc. Open textbook study. Problem solving or case studies

Efekty uczenia się i metody weryfikacji osiągania efektów uczenia się

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Warunki zaliczenia

Class: Credit with grade on the basis of presentation and written papers. The class will be divided up into discussion/presentation groups.  Students will organize and prepare oral presentations and demonstrations to the class explaining assigned chapters from the texts.  Each student is likely to make one presentation during the semester.

Lecture: written exam.

Final grade will be the average of class and exam credit.

Literatura podstawowa

1. Adamski, P. Machonin, W. Zapf (red.), Structural Change and Modernization in Post-Socialist Societies, red. W. “Krämer”, Hamburg 2002.

Literatura uzupełniająca

1.       Corak M., Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility. Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 no.

2.       Higley J., Lengyel G. (2000), Elites after State Socialism. Theories and Analysis, Roman & Littlefield Publisher, INC.,  Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford 2000.

3.       Goldthorpe J.H., Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980.

Uwagi

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.

Zmodyfikowane przez dr Magdalena Zapotoczna (ostatnia modyfikacja: 12-04-2018 16:10)