
This course provides an introduction to the sociology of health and illness. The main objective of this course, divided equally into lectures and seminars, is to equip students with basic conceptual and heuristic tools to carry out a critical and theoretically informed scrutiny of health and health care, focusing on the key actors, processes and structural context of health and health care in contemporary societies. The course will provide students with an overview of key scholars in the field, reviews main theoretical concepts and outlines the links between health and social theory. More specifically, during lectures and seminars the following topics will be discussed: the political economy of health care, digital technologies and health, health care professions, doctor-patient relationships, as well as health social movements.
- Teacher: Olga Angelovská
- Teacher: Dino Numerato
The goal of this course is to provide both the latest scientific reflection on the diversity and dynamics of the European social space as well as introduce students to the Czech contribution to this development and diversity. This course introduces students to basic knowledge about Czech society from a sociological perspective. The course will present a unique sociological perspective as an appropriate tool for understanding contemporary complex phenomena such as environmental movements, the use of public spaces, Central European countries’ way of populism, capitalism and welfare state, migration, family relations, post-secular cities, and more. These problems are neither global nor local. The complex interconnectedness of global and local levels is one of the findings of contemporary sociology. Through this perspective, students will not only learn about Czech society but also practise sociological thinking about complex problems that are recontextualized from global to local conditions and vice versa.
- Teacher: Jan Balon
- Teacher: Shreya Bhardwaj
- Teacher: Ondřej Císař
- Teacher: Tomáš Dvořák
- Teacher: Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková
- Teacher: Ema Hrešanová
- Teacher: Andrea Hrůzová
- Teacher: Aleš Kudrnáč
- Teacher: Dino Numerato
- Teacher: Ivan Petrúšek
- Teacher: Michaela Pixová
- Teacher: Andrea Průchová Hrůzová
- Teacher: Eva Soares Moura
- Teacher: Barbora Spalová
- Teacher: Alessandro Testa
- Teacher: Martin Tremčinský
- Teacher: Jitka Wirthová
- Teacher: Dana Mudd