1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

The course emphasis is on analysis of key social relations, forms and processes, different types of social behavior and significant social phenomena to
enable understanding of the meaning of sociological knowledge.
1.Introductory lesson (2 lessons)
Introduction with the seminar essay literature and seminar essay assignments (2 lessons)
2. Sociological perspective: sociology and everyday experience; sociology and other social sciences (2 lessons)
3. Distinctive sociological approach to society: beginning and development (2 lessons)
4. Sociology founders: the development of contemporary sociology (2 lessons)
5. Defining the concept of society: development of human societies; premodern; modern societies; society theories (2 lessons)
6. The structure of society: social hierarchy (2 lessons)
7. Social groups: types of social groups, criteria of group division; relations between the individual and groups; group dynamics; social organization (2 lessons)
8. Sociology of leisure: gender and leisure; leisure and social control (2 lessons)
9. Poverty and social exclusion (2 lessons)
10. Authority and power: political institutions (2 lessons)
11. Elite theory: power and politics in Western democracy; new social movements (2 lessons)
12. Social differentiation: social stratification and social inequality (2 lessons)
13. Bureaucracy: elements of bureaucratic structure; bureaucratization of social relations (2 lessons)
14. Social control/ sociological, psychological and anthropological approach (2 lessons)
15. Deviancy/ biological, sociological and psychological theories (2 lessons)

1. Kuvačić, I: Uvod u sociologiju
2. Best, S: Understanding Social Division
3. Haralambos, M: Uvod u sociologiju.

1. Bradshaw, Y.W. , Healey, J.F., Smith, R: Sociology for a New Century
2. Calhoun, C., Rojek, C., Turner, B. S: The SAGE Handbook of Sociology
3. Hrgović, J., Polšek, D: Evolucija društvenosti
4. Katunarić, V: Rajska zajednica i društveni pakao-sociološka razmatranja
5. Katunarić, V: Sporna zajednica Novije teorije o naciji i nacionalizmu
6. Kalanj, R: Ideologija, utopija i moć
7. Kuhn, T. S: Struktura znanstvenih revolucija
8. Newman, D. M: Sociology. Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief Edition Fourth Edition
9. Ritzer, G: Introduction to Sociology
10. Weber, M: Vlast i politika
11. Weber, M: Politika kao poziv

Mandatory course - Regular studij - Single Major Undergraduate Study Programme in Sociology