(in Polish) Historia społeczna emocji w PRL

elective courses

This lecture is not a history of Polish People's Republic (PRL) in a strict sense, so basic knowledge of its history is PRL is absolutely necessary

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The six most important emotions: joy, anxiety, anger, surprise, disgust and fear were rarely the subject of historical research. Usually psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, poets talk about emotions. The lecture will be an attempt to approximate the most important social emotions and manifestations in the period of People's Poland. Speech will be about fear of power and war panics, social anger and frequent periods of boredom.

Joanna Bourke, Fear. A cultural history, London 2006;

Jean Delumeau, Strach w kulturze Zachodu XIV – XVIII w., Warszawa 1986;

F Andrzej Friszke, Losy państwa i narodu 1939–1989, Warszawa 2003;

Antoni Kępiński, Lęk, Warszawa 1995;

Keith Oatley Keith, Jennifer M. Jenkins, Zrozumieć emocje, Warszawa 2003;

Vladimir Shlapentokh Vladimir, Fear in Contemporary Society. Its Negative and Positive Effects, New York 2006; Jonathan H. Turner, Socjologia emocji, Warszawa 2009.

After passing the lecture the student should:

- have a basic knowledge about the history of the People's Republic of Poland;

- have an elementary knowledge of social emotions;

- understand the meaning of emotions for social life;

- have a basic orientation in the literature of the subject.

To complete the course students should attend the lecture and pass the final test. More than three unexcused absences constitute truancy.