Sylabus
* Structure of Lessons:
1. Sociology of conflict - introduction.
2. Sociology of conflict: Lewis Coser.
3. Sociology of conflict: Ralph Dahrendorf.
4. Sociology of conflict: Ch. W. Mills.
5. Sociology of revolution - introduction.
6. Sociology of revolution: P. Sorokin and J. Davies.
7. Sociology of revolution: C. Brinton and a selected case study.
8. Sociology of revolution: Ch. Tilly and S. Huntington.
9. Sociology of terrorism: M. Juergensmeyer and religious terrorism.
10. Sociology of terrorism: R. Pape and suicide terrorism.
11. Sociology of war: propaganda, gender.
12. Sociology of war: historical perspective, old and new wars.
13. Concluding remarks. * Required reading: - Sinisa Malesevic. Sociology of War and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2010. - Mark Juergensmeyer. Terror in mind of god. Los Angeles: University of California Press,
2001. - Robert Pape. Dying to Win. New York: Random House,
2005.
Anotace
THIS COURSE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE STUDENTS OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY!
The lecture is dealsing with the sociology of conflict (K. Marx, L. Coser, R. Dahrendorf, Ch. W. Mills) and with the main approaches to the sociology of revolution (P. Sorokin, J. Davies, T. Gurr, Ch. Tilly, C. Brinton, J. Alexander) including selected case studies (for example the CzechoslovacCzechoslovak Velvet revolution of 1989). It also deals with proto-sociology of war, (K. Marx, C. Clausewitz, T. Malthus, V. Lenin, J. Hobson, I. Kant), sociology of war
(P. Sorokin, Ch. Tilly, M. Kaldor, H. Joas, M. Klare, H. Dixon, S. Huntington), and sociology of terrorism (M.
Juergensmeyer, R. Pape).
The lectures will be held in MS Teams on regular bases. https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3af59ee8e005094d448ae5188faf215c61%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=1e5b60fa-93c7-495e-834a-806f9068e44b&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2