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Everyday Culture

ОК 18

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

6 Semester

4

2. To analyze, comment and summarize scientific and analytical texts of culturological format. 4. To know and understand theoretical approaches to definition of culture, its manifestations and forms of existence. 5. To collect, organize and analyze information on cultural phenomena, events, historical and cultural processes. 6. To identify, verify and summarize information on various contexts of cultural practice, to determine the degree of their relevance using different sources, information, communication tools and visual technologies. 8. To interpret cultural sources (material, printed, visual, artistic) using special literature and certain methods, tо reasonably present conclusions regarding their content. 10. To recognize and classify different types of cultural products, to determine their qualitative characteristics based on comprehensive analysis.

Full-time form

1. Before studying this course, students must know the main achievements of material and spiritual culture, their essential features; stages and characteristics of the historical and cultural process; basics of ethics, aesthetics, sociology of culture; basic culturological concepts and categories; basic culturological theories and methods of culturological research, including methods of philosophy of culture, cultural anthropology, sociology of culture. 2. Be able to collect and interpret information on cultural phenomena, cultural processes and events; explain the essence of the phenomenon of culture, its role in human life; to apply the conceptual and categorical apparatus of theoretical culturology to study the manifestations of everyday life. 3. Have basic skills in working with consolidated information, namely, obtain and analyze information from various sources and systematically develop different types of information resources.

Part of the course 1. Theoretical aspects of everyday culture." The phenomenon of everyday life as an object of scientific research. "Everyday life science" as a scientific field. Sources and methods of studying the culture of everyday life. Structures of everyday culture. Part of the course 2. Space of everyday life: house, settlement. The human body in the space of everyday culture. Food in the culture of everyday life. Clothes, hair, cosmetics and fragrances in everyday life. The world of private life in the culture of everyday life.

1. Berger P, Luckmann T. (1967). The Social Construction of Reality. A Treatise on sociology of Knowledge. Anchor, 219 р. 2. Elias N. (2000) The Civilizing Process. Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations. Revised edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 3. Fiske J. Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life. URL: https://pages.mtu.edu/~jdslack/readings/CSReadings/Fiske_Cultural_Studies_Culture_Everyday_Life.pdf 4. Highmore, Ben (2011). Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday. 5. Huizinga J. Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen. URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16829/16829-h/16829-h.htm 6. Leddy, Thomas (2012). The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life 7. Trend, David (2008). Everyday Culture: Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World.

Lecture, seminar, self-study

Assessment of semester work: 1. Oral presentation, additions, participation in discussions at seminars: 18 / 30 points. 2. Self-study #1: Synopsis of primary sources: 3 / 6 points. Self-study #2 Individual project work devoted to analysis structures of everyday life (as chosen by the student): 11/18 points. 3. Test: 4 / 6 points. All types of work in the semester have as a result: - in the maximum dimension – 60 points; - in the minimum dimension – 36 points. Final evaluation in the form of an exam: Written exam - 24 / 40 points.

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