2-IKV-112 Modern social theories

Evaluation during the course: active participation (25), presentation (25)

Concluding evaluation: essay/exam

Subject aim: 1. Study of dominant ideas and conceptions, of representatives of classical and contemporary modern social theories. 2. Methodological individualism as a starting point and a conceptual framework for considering the human and society in social sciences. 3. Heuristic value and meaning of the game theory in genesis and further development of this style of consideration of human and social phenomena.

Brief curriculum of the subject:

- Idea of methodological individualism, its characteristic methods

- Concept of rational egoism

- Anarchy and regularity

- Norms and forms of coordination, their social function

- Decision-making and game – parametric and strategic rationality

- Individual and collective rationality

- Prerequisites for social cooperation and collective behavior

- Paradoxes of social behavior

- Social behavior and knowledge – explicit and implicit

Literature:

Robert M. Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation 1-3 kap., Basic Books 1984.

James M. Buchanan: Hranice slobody. Archa 1996.

Rawls, J.: Spravodlivosť ako férovosť. Kalligram 2007.

Language in which the subject is taught: Slovak

Date of the last sheet revision: 18.2.2009