Contemporary Sociological Theories
Course: Sociаl Technologies
Structural unit: Faculty of Sociology
            Title
        
        
            Contemporary Sociological Theories
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ОК16
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            First
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2021/2022
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            5 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            6
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            Know: The main principles of the leading currents of modern sociological theory, the specifics of these trends in sociology and their main representatives
Be able to: determine the cognitive potential of modern sociological theories in research practice; to evaluate the heuristic possibilities of modern sociological theories in the knowledge of social phenomena and processes
Carry out independent analytical, research and exploration activities
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            1. Know the main stages of development of sociology, key areas of classical sociological theorizing
2. Be able to work with scientific literature and primary sources
3. Have the conceptual apparatus of sociological theory
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            Sociological theory: current status and ways of its development
Structural functionalism: from the theory of action to the general theory of systems
Neo-Marxism in the sociology of the twentieth century.
Interpretive tradition in sociology: phenomenology, ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism
Poststructuralism and neofunctionalism in modern sociological theory
Conceptualization of socio-cultural analysis in the system of socio-humanitarian sciences
 Sociocultural analysis of cultural transmission
 Semiotic approaches in sociocultural analysis
The use of socio-cultural analysis: opportunities and limitations
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            Йоас Х., Кнѐбль В. Социальная теория: 20 вводных лекций. / Пер. с нем. К.Г. Тимофеевой. - СПб: Алетейя, 2011. 
Коллинз Р. Четыре социологических традиции. Пер. В. Россмана. - М.: Территория будущего, 2009. 
Малес Л. В. Вивчаючи тексти культури: соціокультурний аналіз як пізнавальна стратегія соціології. – К. : К.І.С., 2011. 
Монсон П. Современная западная социология. Теории, традиции, перспективы. - СПб: Нотабене, 1992. 
Ритцер Дж. Современная социологическая теория – СПб., 2002. 
Соболевська М.О. Неофункціоналістські та постструктуралістські теорії в сучасній соціології. Навчальний посібник. – К.: Дух і літера, 2010. 
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Lecture, seminar, self-study
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            - semester assessment:
1. active work in seminars: 40/24 points
2. performance of modular control works: 20/12 points (2 works on 10 maximum or 6 minimum points for everyone)
- final assessment: written exam - 40 points maximum. The minimum score for passing the exam (overall positive grade) is 24 points.
- Conditions for admission to the final exam: For students who scored a total of fewer points in the module than the critical minimum - 36 points to obtain admission to the exam is required to retake the module tests.
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Maryna
                    Oleksandrivna
                    Sobolevs'ka
                
                
                    Department of Theory and History of Sociology 
Faculty of Sociology
            Faculty of Sociology
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Department of Theory and History of Sociology
                    
                    
                        Faculty of Sociology