Subject name SELECTED ASPECTS OF SOCIOLOGY ECTS Code

Subject name
ECTS Code
SELECTED ASPECTS OF SOCIOLOGY
Name of unit teaching the subject
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION AND APPLIED ARTS
Studies
Field of study
Interior Architecture
degree
second
mode
non-stationary
major
specialization
Surname of instructor (instructors)
Type of class, method of implementation and specified number of
hours
A. Type of class
 Lecture
Amount of ECTS points
Lecture = 2 ECTS
B. Method of implementation
 classes in a didactic room
C. Amount of hours in accordance with the approved curriculum
Didactic cycle
winter semester
Subject status
 facultative
Language of instruction
Polish
Didactic methods
Forms and methods of passing and general grading criteria or examination
requirements
Lecture supplemented with multimedia
presentations
A. Method of passing
 examination
B. Forms of passing:
 written examination: test
C. Basic grading criteria
Exam mark based on points received on the test. Average mark means 51% correct
answers. Good mark means 70%-89%. Excellent mark means 90% and above
Definition of preparatory subjects and initial requirements
No initial requirements
Subject aim
Acquiring the knowledge on the subject of selected phenomena and social processes as well as showing possible ways to
interpret them
Program content
 Sociology as a science – basic aspects: object of sociology, classicists of sociology, classical sociology theories (basic
aspects)
 Interaction as the basis of social reality
 Aspects connected with social groups: social indicators of a social group, group structures, concept of reference groups
 Socialization in a sociological approach, theories of socialization, types of socialization
 Social structure and its empirical analysis: classical concepts of social stratification, elements which differentiate social
classes, social stratification in Poland and in Europe
 Culture in a sociological interpretation: types of culture, popular culture, outline of theory of communications
 Social capital concepts: presentations of concepts of Robert Putnam, Francis Fukuyama, Pierre Bourdieu and Michael
Woolcock
 Urban public space as a field of social relations
 Basics of methods and techniques of social research
 Globalization in a sociological approach: concept of three waves of globalization, globalization according to Zygmunt
Bauman
Literature
A. Literature required to pass the class (pass the exam)
A.1. used in class
 Piotr Sztompka Socjologia Kraków 2002
 Anthony Giddens, Socjologia, Warszawa 2004.
 Peter Berger, Zaproszenie do socjologii, Warszawa 1995.
 Encyklopedia socjologii, tomy 1-4 i Suplement
 Krzysztof Bierwiaczonek, Lewicka Barbara, Nawrocki Tomasz, Rynki, malle i cmentarze. Przestrzeń publiczna miast
śląskich w ujęciu socjologicznym, Kraków 2012
 Marian Golka Socjologia kultury Warszawa 2007
A.2. studied independently by the student
Marek S. Szczepański, Bohdan Jałowiecki Miasto i przestrzeń w perspektywie socjologicznej Warszawa 2002 (second
edition 2006)
 Piotr Sztompka, Małgorzata Bogunia-Borowska Socjologia codzienności Kraków 2008.
 Robert Cialdini Wywieranie wpływu na ludzi. Teoria i praktyka Gdańsk 2004 (also earlier and latter editions)
 Peter Berger, Thomas Luckamn, Społeczne tworzenie rzeczywistości, Warszawa 2010

B. Supplmentary literature
 Earl Babbie, Badania społeczne w praktyce, Warszawa 2003
 Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, David Nachmias, Metody badawcze w naukach społecznych, Poznań 2001.
Study effects:
Acquiring knowledge on the subject of basic social phenomena and processes, showing ways to interpret social reality and
acquiring the basics of knowledge regarding methods and techniques of social research
Relation to major-related
Relation to educational
Effect Description of effect
educational outcomes
outcomes in the education
no
area
Knowledge:
W1
Student acquires knowledge regarding basic social
phenomena and processes
K_W10
A2A_W11
W2
Student knows the basics of knowledge regarding
methods and techniques of social research
K_W9
A2A_W11, A2A_W12
K_U07
A2A_U18
K_U06
A2A_U15, A2A_U18,
A2A_U20
K_K05
A2A_K01
Abilities:
Student can use basic knowledge in social sciences in
completing a design process
Student knows the basics of interaction theory and
U2
social communications theory, can cooperate in
completing group projects
Social competencies:
U1
K1
Student is conscious of functioning in a wider social
system and of the necessity to raise his social
competencies