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Contemporary Sociological Theory
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:33
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SUPK_054 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Theory and History of Sociology | Target Audience: | Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ritma Rungule | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 16 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 32 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
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| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 5 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 9 | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 10 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 11 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bauman Z. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity, 2000 | ||||||||
| 2 | Beck U. World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity, 1999, rep.2008 | ||||||||
| 3 | Bourdieu P. Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, Harvard University Press, 1984 | ||||||||
| 4 | Castells M. TheRiseoftheNetworkSociety, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. | ||||||||
| 5 | Giddens A. TheConstructionofSociety: OutlineoftheTheoryofStructuration. PolityPress, 1986. | ||||||||
| 6 | Giddens A. RunawayWorld: HowGlobalisationisReshapingourLives,Routledge, 2002 | ||||||||
| 7 | Giddens A. TheConsequencesofModernity. Cambridge: Polity, 1990. | ||||||||
| 8 | Gidenss E., Sabiedrības veidošanās. AGB, 1999. | ||||||||
| 9 | Ritzer G. ModernSociologicalTheory. McGraw-HillHigherEducation, 2000. | ||||||||
| 10 | Ritzer G. TheMcDonaldizationofSociety, PineForgePress, 2004 | ||||||||
| 11 | Webster F. TheoriesoftheInformationSociety. Routledge, 2002. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | KeySociologicalThinkers. Ed. byRobStones. MacmillanPressLtd., 1998, | ||||||||
| 2 | ProfilesinContemporarySocialTheory. Ed.byAnthonyElliott&Bryan S. Turner, SagePublications, 2001. | ||||||||
| 3 | Полякова, H. ХХ век в социологическихтеорияхобщества. М. Логос., 2004. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.socioweb.com/ | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.sociosite.net | ||||||||
| 3 | http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/sociologist | ||||||||
| 4 | http://www.sociology.org.uk/ | ||||||||
| 5 | http://www.sociolog.com/ | ||||||||
| 6 | http://www.europeansociology.org | ||||||||
| 7 | http://www.isa-sociology.org | ||||||||
| 8 | http://www.petnieciba.lv | ||||||||
