Emotional history of People's Poland 3500-FAK-LIC-EMHIS
The six most important emotions: joy, anxiety, anger, surprise, disgust and fear were rarely the subject of historical research. Usually psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, poets talk about emotions. The lecture will be an attempt to approximate the most important social emotions and manifestations in the period of People's Poland. Speech will be about fear of power and war panics, social anger and frequent periods of boredom.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After passing the course student:
- is conscious of existence of different ways of organizing societies in the past and the present
- is aware of social differences and existence of social inequalities, as well as their impact on lives of individuals and functioning of the social groups
- understands the social nature of relations between individuals, groups and social institutions
- has the ability to use basic theoretical categories in describing social changes in contemporary societies
- can describe the role of culture in functioning of an individual and the society
Assessment criteria
To complete the course students should attend the lecture and pass the final test. More than three unexcused absences constitute truancy.
Bibliography
Joanna Bourke, Fear. A cultural history, London 2006;
Jean Delumeau, Strach w kulturze Zachodu XIV – XVIII w., Warszawa 1986;
F Andrzej Friszke, Losy państwa i narodu 1939–1989, Warszawa 2003;
Antoni Kępiński, Lęk, Warszawa 1995;
Keith Oatley Keith, Jennifer M. Jenkins, Zrozumieć emocje, Warszawa 2003;
Vladimir Shlapentokh Vladimir, Fear in Contemporary Society. Its Negative and Positive Effects, New York 2006; Jonathan H. Turner, Socjologia emocji, Warszawa 2009.
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