Sociology of Culture 20-KUDL-SOK

Dr Agata Sk��rzy��ska:
At the end of the course students should be able to explain following issues:
I. Sociology of culture as a sub-discipline of sociology
II. Symbolic culture as a subject of sociology
III. Cultural studies perspective in the history of social studies
IV. Sociology as a discipline based on two distinctions:
a. between traditional and modern societies:
- industrialization
- urbanization
- cultural industry and technological reproduction
b. between modern and post-modern societies (modernity and late modernity)
- globalization
- the rise of Global Cities
- new electronic media and social communication
V. Basic categories of social analysis:
a. individual, social self, identity, social role, symbolic interaction, social communication
b. social group, social relation, community, culture, tradition, social - cultural minority/majority, marginalization
c. tradition, social memory, social change
VI. Contemporary art, popular culture and new ways of life as symbolical practice in social context
VII. Transformations of societies and contemporary culture:
- globalization
- aesthatisation of everyday life and social spectacle
- consumer culture
- popular culture and media
- new mobilities and transnational connections
- new local communities
- subcultures, alternative culture and new social movements
- city as a cultural space and urban cultures

Dr Ma��gorzata Nieszczerzewska:
Students are expected to become acquainted with the classical issues and terms of the sociology of culture, such as globalization, communities, socialization, individual and social identity, social exclusion, lifestyles, social change and risk and trust in culture. Students should gain the ability to interpret these terms in the context of changes occurring in modern culture and social life. Students will be using classical texts, which lead into the area of the sociology of culture and compare them with modern texts which describe the newest culture.