History of social thought

obligatory courses

Classroom

The aim of the seminar is to show the main trends of the development of the social thought and their famous representatives. Students, analyzing the fragments of the works will have possibilities to make comparative analyses as to the contemporary times. The range of the seminar embraces the period from the ancient times to postmodernism. The Polish contribution into the social thought is also included.

There is a chronological order in presenting the particular questions.

Introduction is devoted the history of the social thought as a source of the reflection on society along with social character of the idea, naïve monism and critical dualism as well as two analytical perspectives: presentizm and contextualizm. Classic theories of the society and the state, taking as an example: Platoon and Aristotle, will be discussed next.

Middle Ages social though, the relation between the faith and the knowledge, the social order and social though of St. Augustine and St. Thomas – as a background to the question of the role of Renaissance as a bridge between The Middle Ages and The Enlightenment.

J.Locke, T. Hobbes, J. Rousseau’s lectures on the ideas of natural law and humanity as well as the social contract tradition in the Enlightenment are analyzed as an examples of the modern social thought .

In the part concerning the pioneers of the modern sociology and the evolutions of the approaches towards the scientific research of social reality and creating of the principles of the sociological method, the text of A. Comte, E. Durkheim and K. Marks are read and discuss.

The role of the conflict in explaining of the social change is discuss, too.

The idea of the universal social change from the perspective of historical sociology is discussed on the base of the texts by A. Tocqueville. While the idea of democracy and the civil society in the social and political thought is presented according to the different authors.

The course ends subjects: contemporary concepts of society and .postmodernity in the social thought as well as transformation change in Poland in contemporary social though.

K. Popper , rozdział X: Socjologia opisowa Platona, [w:] „Społeczeństwo otwarte i jego wrogowie”, tom I, Warszawa 1994; J. Pieper , Scholastyka, Pax 2000; W. Kornatowski, Społeczno-polityczna myśl św. Augustyna, Warszawa 1965;J. Szacki, Historia myśli socjologicznej, PWN, Warszawa 2002;

Nicolo Machiavelli, Książę, PIW (różne wydania);M. Król, Historia myśli polityczne od Machiavellego po czasy współczesne, Gdańsk 2001;

R. Solarz – „Proces racjonalizacji władzy w Europie – zarys ewolucji” [w:] A.W. Jabłoński i L. Sobkowiak” (red.), „Studia z teorii polityki, Wrocław 1999, t. III ;

T. Hobbes, Lewiatan czyli materia, forma i władza państwa kościelnego i świeckiego, Fundacja Aletheia, Warszawa 2005; J. Locke, Traktat drugi. Esej dotyczący prawdziwych początków, zakresu i celu rządu obywatelskiego traktat o narodzie” [w:] „Dwa traktaty o rządzie”, PWN 1992, s.163-198, 216-277; J. Rousseau, Umowa społeczna, Kęty 2009; Z.Rau, M. Chmieliński (red.), Umowa społeczna i jej krytycy w myśli politycznej i prawnej, SCHOLAR, 2010;

A. Comte, Rozprawa o duchu filozofii pozytywnej, Wydawnictwo ANTYK , Kęty 2001; E. Durkheim, Zasady metody socjologicznej, PWN 2000; A. Tocqueville, O demokracji w Ameryce (wybrane strony);

A. Antoszewski, Współczesne teorie demokracji, s.7-29 [w:] A. W. Jabłoński i L. Sobkowiak (red.), Studia z teorii polityki, Wrocław 1999; K. Dziubka – Społeczeństwo obywatelskie: wybrane aspekty ewolucji pojęcia”, s.31 –52, [w:] A. W. Jabłoński i L. Sobkowiak (red.), Studia z teorii polityki, Wrocław 1999;

D. Harvey,Neoliberalizm. Historia katastrofy, Wydawnictwo Książka i Prasa, Warszawa 2008; P. Żuk (red.), W poszukiwaniu innych światów. Europa, lewica, socjaldemokracja wobec zmian globalnych, Scholar 2003; P. Żuk (red.), Spotkania z utopią w XXI wieku, ON 2008; M. Król, Bezradność liberałów, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2005; R. H. Popkin, AvrumStroll, Filozofia „Filozofia polityczna Karola Marksa”, s.131-148;M. Hirszowicz – Skąd, ale dokąd? Wydawnictwo Sic?, Warszawa 2007, A. Jawłowska, Tu i teraz w perspektywie kultury postmodernistycznej, „Kultura społeczeństwo”, styczeń-marzec 1991, s.43-52; F. Jameson, Postmodernizm i społeczeństwo konsumpcyjne [w:] R.Nycz (red), Postmodernizm. Antologia przekładów , Kraków 1996; Naukowa, Warszawa 2008; A. Karpiński i inni (red.), Dwudziestolecie polskich przemian, INE PAN, Warszawa 2011;

J. Reykowski i inni (red.) Projekt dla Polski. Perspektywa lewicowa, SCHOLAR 2011;

J. Urbański, Prekariat i nowa walka klas,Książka i Prasa , Warszawa 2014;

Learning outcomes:

KNOWLEDGE

Student is able to:

1) recognize, on the base of the received knowledge, the different types of social order - from the ancient times to postmodernity;

2) characterize the contribution of the most famous representatives into the development of the social though; 3) describe the evolution of ideas on scientific research of social reality;

4) use the terminology connected with the course.

SKILLS

Student is capable to:

1) make comparative analyses of the different social orders;

2) observe the social orders in the conditions of the rapid social changes.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE

After the course student gains competence to:

1) take an active part in the discourse on social reality;

2) apply critical approach and express an independent views on contemporary directions of changes of social orders.

Assessment methods and criteria:

1.Results of the written test with open questions (90 min.) 2. Systematic activity during the seminar (attendance at the seminars and participation in the discussion) 3. Presented paper.

1.Capabilities to interpret social reality from the presentizm and contextualizm 2. Capability to work in a team on a chosen issue.

1.Skills in communicative transmission of received knowledge and expressing own opinions 2. Critical approach towards the materials concerning the nowadays social orders.