Social philosophy

Course: Religious Studies 2020

Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy

Title
Social philosophy
Code
ОК.19
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
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PRN 1. Communicate freely on professional issues in national and foreign languages orally and in writing, use languages for effective intercultural communication. PRN 3. To have the skills to apply subject knowledge in religious studies for the purpose of analyzing current social problems. PRN 12. To present one's own point of view in open discussions on religious issues.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Before starting this course, students should know general ideas about theoretical and practical philosophy; about the specificity of philosophical problems in their relation to religion and social life; about the principles of critical understanding of socio-philosophical concepts; about the general structure of worldview and theoretical and practical human activity with the aim of their use in various spheres of social practice; 2. Be able to carry out analytical work; collect and interpret the available information, processing the basic literature on practical and theoretical philosophy, set general goals and main tasks of philosophical research; operate with the main components of theoretical and practical philosophy in everyday life and general social practice; discuss key socio-philosophical issues related to modernity;
Course content
A detailed list of topics covered by the discipline: Topic 1. Modern social philosophy Topic 2. Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism Topic 3. Emile Durkheim's theory of social realism Topic 4. Georg Simmel's theory of social forms Topic 5. Max Weber's theory of social rationalization Topic 6. George Herbert Mead's theory of symbolic interactionism and Talcott Parsons' theory of social systems Topic 7. The concept and features of the socio-historical subject Topic 8. Mass as a specific type of social community Topic 9. Global and local in the modern world system Topic 10. Post-industrial projects of social predictions of changes in the world: information and communication directions of development and transformations of humanity.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Final assessment in the form of credit
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

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