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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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(1) basic terms, definitions, approaches (2) idea of a society, idea of a nature (3) society - economy - environment (4) sociology and environmentalism (5) cultural factor in the relation between societies and their environment (6) global capitalism and transnational corporations (7) democracy, civil society, ecology (8) society - individuality - responsibility (9) research projects in environmental sociology
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Students' portfolio, Individual study, Lecture, Seminar
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 5 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 17 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 30 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to describe and explain basic social phenomena at the level of high school curriculum. |
| to describe the formation of basic social trends shaping the development of society at the level of high school curriculum. |
| to enumerate and describe the basic developmental stages of the formation of Western societies. |
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| to create a formally acceptable professional output. |
| to use foreign databases of professional journals. |
| to interpret knowledge from various subfields of sociology. |
| to use adequate terms corresponding to the terminology of the field in the Czech language. |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to distinguish between historical and contemporary approaches to the study of the environment. |
| to explain epistemological and theoretical obstacles to sociological environmental research. |
| to explain the methodological specifics of environmental research. |
| vyjmenovat a charakterizovat jednotlivé srovnávací výzkumy využívající teoretických konceptualizací při studiu životního prostředí. |
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| to classify different types of approaches to the study of the environment. |
| samostatně demonstrovat konkrétní konfliktní přístupy ve studiu životního prostředí. |
| samostatně kriticky zhodnotit teorie životního prostředí. |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Project |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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Bauman, Zygmunt. Globalizace : důsledky pro člověka. Praha : Mladá fronta, 1999. ISBN 80-204-0817-7.
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Keller, Jan. Až na dno blahobytu. Praha : Earth Save, 2005. ISBN 80-903085-7-0.
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Keller, Jan; Frič, Pavol; Gál, Fedor. Hodnoty pro budoucnost. Praha : G plus G, 1996. ISBN 80-901896-4-4.
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Keller, Jan. Sociologie a ekologie. 1. vyd. Praha, 1997. ISBN 80-85850-42-7.
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Mishan, E. J. Spor o ekonomický růst. Praha : Sociologické nakl., 1994. ISBN 80-901424-3-5.
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