Social Anthropology: Sociological Foundations
Course: Sociology
Structural unit: Faculty of Sociology
Title
Social Anthropology: Sociological Foundations
Code
ОК7
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
Know:
Modern scientific understanding of the co-evolution of man and society
The main stages of evolution of society and patterns of transition between them
Basic theoretical approaches of social anthropology to the explanation of the orderliness of social life
Be able:
It is correct to use the basic conceptual apparatus of social sciences in oral discussion
Define scientific and everyday concepts
To determine the theoretical and methodological principles of sociological research
Participate in an oral scientific discussion
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Have a general idea of the stages of human history (based on the school history course)
2. Have a general idea of the theory of evolution (based on the school course of biology)
3. Be able to work with scientific literature
Course content
The concept of anthroposociogenesis. Methods and difficulties of studying the evolutionary past of man. The relationship of social and biological in the formation of modern man. Behavioral modernity. Formation and settlement of anatomically and behaviorally modern man. Concepts, preconditions of origin and significance of human culture. Neolithic revolution and the rise of complex societies. Industrial revolution, formation and features of modern societies. Historical background, intellectual origins and subject area of social anthropology. Religious life, thinking, mentality and exchange in primitive societies: the problems of the French school of social anthropology. Functional analysis of primitive society in the theories of the British school. The place of economics and material factors in the Marxist approach to the analysis of primitive societies. Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology and Clifford Geertz's Interpretationist Paradigm.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Brown, Donald E. Human Universals, Human Nature & Human Culture // Daedalus. – Vol. 133. – No. 4. – 2004. – Pp. 47–54.
Päabo, Svante. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. – New York: Basic Books, 2014. – P. 185–200.
Pirages Dennis. Nature, disease, and globalization: An evolutionary perspective / Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change / Ed. by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William R. Thompson. – New York: Routledge, 2008. – Pp. 226–241.
Karl Polanyi. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. – Boston: Beacon Press, 2001. – Chapter 4.
Stringer Chris. Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth. – New York: Times Books, 2012. – P. 16–35, 171–204, 265–278.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, student's self-work
Assessment methods and criteria
- semester assessment:
1. CW1 - 20 points / 12 points
2. CW 2 - 20 points / 12 points
3.CW 3 - 20 points / 12 points
4. CW4 - 20 points / 12 points
5. Participation in the seminar discussion - 20 points / 12 points
- final assessment: pass-exam
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
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Departments
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