711-0136/05 – Social Reality in Engineering Practice (SRIP)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Social SciencesCredits2
Subject guarantorprof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.Subject version guarantorprof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementChoice-compulsory type B
Year1Semestersummer
Study languageEnglish
Year of introduction2022/2023Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesFSIntended for study typesFollow-up Master, Bachelor
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
FEB40 prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.
HAU40 prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer
VYS06 Mgr. Markéta Janíková
KOW01 Mgr. Petra Kowaliková, Ph.D.
ZEM0106 Mgr. Tomáš Zemčík, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Graded credit 0+2
Part-time Graded credit 10+0

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

Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study

Occurrence in study plans

Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2024/2025 (B0588A170002) Applied Sciences and Technologies P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2024/2025 (B0713A070003) Energetics and Environments P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2024/2025 (B0715A270012) Engineering P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2023/2024 (B0588A170002) Applied Sciences and Technologies P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2023/2024 (B0713A070003) Energetics and Environments P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2023/2024 (B0715A270012) Engineering P English Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2022/2023 (B0713A070003) Energetics and Environments P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2022/2023 (B0588A170002) Applied Sciences and Technologies P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2022/2023 (B0715A270012) Engineering P English Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan

Occurrence in special blocks

Block nameAcademic yearForm of studyStudy language YearWSType of blockBlock owner

Assessment of instruction



2022/2023 Summer