Other topics: taught courses

Research workshop for PhD students

PhD programme in sociology, Faculty of Social Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno - workshop; SOC922, 15 credits (Autumn semester).

Sociology is a rhetorical exercise (Paul Atkinson). This course is not aimed at theoretical elaboration of this observation, but will take the form of a writing workshop and practically oriented collective debates on the topic. The work on site will be copmplemented by several home assignements. The main goals of the course are: (1) to cultivate practical skills of sociological reporting and writing; (2) to discuss and master formatting and finalizing of scholarly paper before submitting it to publication; (3) to mediate a mutual critical feedback on actual finished or almost-finished scholarly texts authored by the participants.

PhD programme in sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague; a workhsop

The aim is to develop practical skills related to the work of sociological reporting and arguing. The workshop is intended for doctoral and advanced MA students.

MA programme in sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague

Modernity in non-modern view with references to Bruno Latour and contemporary sociology of science. Since 1996 to 2003, the course belonged to the special MA programme Biographical sociology.

MA programme in sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague; a workhsop

The aim is to develop practical skills related to the work of sociological reporting and arguing. The workshop is intended for doctoral and advanced MA students.

MA programme in sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague

Issues of postmodern sociology and a sociology of postmodernity.

BA programme in sociology, distance learning programme, Faculty of Social Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno (autumn semesters)

BA programme in sociology, Faculty of Social Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno; code SOC131, 6 credits (spring semesters)

Things, technological artifacts and material objects play increasingly important role in our lives. Understanding how such material entities engage in social ordering leads us to taking more seriously the autonomous "thingy" existence of such traditionally sociologically relevant entities such as texts, documents or persons. Using numerous examples we will debate this increasing sociological sensitivity toward the world of things, which will shed some new light on fundaments of selected sociological schools and the entire discipline in general.

BA programme in sociology and social policy, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague

Discussions of a set of articles toward textual constructions of reality in sociological texts (R.H. Brown, P. Atkinson, new literary forms).

BA programme in sociology and social policy, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague

Discussions of Berger's and Luckman's The social construction of reality.