Introduction to Sociology of Culture I
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 30
ECTS credit: 5
Lecturer(s): doc. dr. Cvar Nina, prof. dr. Vidmar Horvat Ksenija
The course offers the basis for the general understanding of culture and provides key conceptual tools for cultural analysis. It includes structural as everyday aspects of culture. It begins by outlining the relationship between culture and society, culture and art, high/low brow culture, language-culture and culture-identity.
It then proceeds by explaining core concepts of historical materialism (base-supra-base; class conflict, alienation, fetishism, false consciousness); hegemony (Gramsci); ideology and ideological state apparati (Althusser), subject, discourse and power (Foucault). The course also includes preliminary readings of Freud on unconscious, mass psychology and identification.
Izbrana poglavja iz/selected readings from:
• L. Althusser: »Ideologija in ideološki aparati države«, v zborniku Ideologija in estetski učinek, CZ, 1980. COBISS.SI-ID - 11797505
• S. Freud: »Množična psihologija in analiza jaza«; v Psihoanaliza in kultura. Ur. Močnik, Rastko; Žižek, Slavoj; Baskar, Bojan Ljubljana : Državna založba Slovenije, 1981 COBISS.SI-ID - 11938561
• M. Foucault: Zgodovina seksualnosti, 1. del, ŠKUC, 2000. COBISS.SI-ID - 108431360
• Marx, Engels; Engels, Friedrich: »Nemška ideologija« (str. 11- 99), v Izbrana dela : v petih zvezkih. 2. zv., V Ljubljani : Cankarjeva založba, 1976-1977. COBISS.SI-ID - 31662849