Sylabus
* Structure of Lessons:
1. Introduction to the course - course structure, student obligations, what is the historical sociology of knowledge, culture and religion?
2. Kuhn’s paradigms
3. Foucault’s episteme
4. Marx's false consciousness5. Elias’s civilization process6. Gellner’s monopoly of legitimate culture7. Eliade's archetypes8. Aries's death9. Student presentations10. Student presentationsMandatory reading assigned each lesson by email.
Anotace
The course uses the perspective of historical sociology in order to study various aspects of knowledge, culture, and religion. By reading the works of prominent sociologists, historians, and historical-sociologists, students will learn of different theories pertaining to the development of these fields throughout history.
Through a comparative and critical reading of the texts, students will learn how similar phenomena might be given a variety of interpretations when studied with different tools and looked at from different perspectives.