711-0136/04 – Social Reality in Engineering Practice (SRIP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2022/2023 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Completion of the course will allow to adequately understand the functioning of contemporary society and to solve current issues related especially to technical progress, market economy, liberal democracy and environmental problems. He wants to contribute to the formation of the personality of the engineer as a responsible member of society.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The course summarizes the fundamental knowledge of social sciences and humanities in relation to engineering practice. Engineering practice is integrated into a broader social context. The production-technical, economic and political subsystem of society is analysed. Particular attention is paid to the definition of technology as part of the material culture of society. Technical progress and its consequences are reflected. Emphasis is placed on the justification of the moral order of society and the ethical issues of science and technology.
Compulsory literature:
Baird, D. Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instrumens. University of California Press 2004.
Recommended literature:
Baird, D. Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instrumens. University of California Press 2004.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Activity on lessons, final written test.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in teaching.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1) The concept of civilized society, society as a system of relations and institutions, subjective and objective factor of society
2) Relationship between society and nature, ecological problems
3) Human material practice, man in the world of technology
4) Stages of development of technology and transformation of the relationship between man and society and nature
5) Production-technical subsystem of the company, technical progress and the concept of industrial revolution
6) Digitization and the concept of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0)
7) Economic subsystem of society and the concept of market economy
8) Political subsystem of society and concept of liberal democracy
9) Social structure of society and concept of human communication
10) Moral and legal order of society, value foundations of contemporary society and the concept of human rights
11) Material and spiritual culture, technology as part of material culture
12) Institutionalized forms of spiritual culture and the concept of scientific knowledge, science and the world of technology
13) Social morality and ethical issues of modern science and technology
14) Scientific-industrial revolution and environmental ethics
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction