711-0606/03 – Sociology of Law (soc)
Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 7 |
Subject guarantor | Mgr. Alice Navrátilová | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Alice Navrátilová |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2007/2008 | Year of cancellation | 2010/2011 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- examine the relationship between law and society in modern and contemporary thought
- develop an understanding of the history of thought in relation to law and society
consider how different approaches to and elaboration of the relationship between law and society bear upon a range of current political issues
- critically address the claim that law is able to provide a just and secure basis for the organization of society, focusing on the tradition of law and society scholarship as and engagement with modern, particularly liberal ideas.
- give an interdisciplinary account of contemporary trends in such scholarship, and consider its dominant themes in relation to current juridical, political and social problems.
Teaching methods
Summary
The aim of the course is to familirize studens with the sociological approach to law as captured in the basic dilemmas of "law in books vs. law in action", appreciate the complex ways in which law and society are related, identify and understand modern conceptions of the relationship between law and society give and account of the key critical traditions that have shaped contemporary notions of law and society and understand how schools of though are related to social and political events, forces and movements.Consider how contemporary juridical, political and social problems are and can be considered through theoretical scholarship in sociology, politics and law.
Compulsory literature:
Gessner, V.:, Nelken, D. (2007): European Ways of Law: Toward a European Sociology of Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing
Recommended literature:
Woodiwiss, A. (2005): Human Rights, Oxon: Routledge.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
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Conditions for subject completion
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Assessment of instruction
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