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Social Structure of Society

ОК16

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2021/2022

4 Semester

4

1.1. Knowledge of the classic and modern theories of social structure, their conceptual frameworks, and the mainstream strategies of socio-structural analysis. 1.2. Knowledge of historical and contemporary tendencies of structural changes in societies. 1.3. Knowledge of the basic components of social structure and theoretical models of their investigation. 2.1. Ability of applying the social structure theories to identification and explanation of social processes through the prism of socio-structural phenomenon. 3.1. Presentation the student’s independent work, qualified participation at the study-discussions. 4.1. Independently search, analyze, generalize of social information, justify conclusion about structural processes in Ukraine and other modern societies.

Full-time form

1. To know the classic and basic modern sociological theories of society. 2. To be able to collect and initially analyze the sociological information. 3. To be able critically analyze the publications, theoretical texts, generalize and justify the empirical conclusions.

Theoretical prospects of socio-structural analysis. Methods of socio-structural research. Principal dimensions of social structure: Distributive (resources and capitals); Cultural (structures of sense, identities). Status structures: social positions and distance; status (in-)consistency. Class structures and class agency. Generation, age and gender dimensions. Intersectionality issues. Religious, and rase dimensions. Regional, urban\rural, ethnic and civic dimensions. Kinship, neighborhood, solidarity issues. Occupational structures and employability. Network structures of acquaintance and trust. Social capital and confidence issues. Structural features of modern societies: industrial, Postindustrial and post-Socialist changes. Social structure of contemporary Ukrainian society: critical dimensions and singularities.

Giddens, Anthony; Duneier, Mitchell; Appelbaum, Richard P.; Carr, Deborah (2018) Introduction to Sociology (Eleventh Edition). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Kovalisko N.V. Fundamentals of social stratification. Lviv, 2007. (Ukr.) Melvin L. Kohn. Change and Stability: A Cross-national Analysis of Social Structure and Personality, 2006. Kutsenko O. Images of post-transformational structure of Ukrainian society. Kyiv, 2012. (Ukr.) Malish L. Principals and rules of measurement of structural inequalities in Sociology. Kyiv, 2019. (Ukr.) Simonchuk O. Social classes in the modern societies: heuristic potential of class analysis. Kyiv, 2018. (Ukr.) Structural dimensions of contemporary society: Textbook. Kyiv, 2006. Piotr Sztompk. Sociology. An Analysis of Society \ Textbook.

Lecture, practice session, individual work, mini-research in groups.

1) Participation in discussions – LO 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1. 2) Individual student’s practical work – LO 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1. 3) Modul control in forms of dispute and tests – LO 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1. 4) Group mini-research with following-up presentation of outcomes – LO 2.1, 3.1, 4.1.

Ukrainian