Moscow School for Social and Economic SciencesMaster ProgramPolitical Sociology and Political ResearchCourse Units OutlinesMoscow - 2010 PS001. History of Political Thought 2PS002. Methodology of Sociological Research 5PS003. Twentieth-Century Political Theory 8PS004. Postmodern French Political Philosophy 11PS005. Sociology of Power 14PS006. International Relations: Evolution and Theory 17PS007. Nation State in the Age of Globalization 20PS008. Theory of Marginality 23PS009. Nationalism as Political Ideology 26PS010. Political Conflicts 29PS011. Elections, Party Systems, Political Regimes in Transition 32PS012. The Phenomenon of Partyness in Comparative Perspective 35PS013. Cultural Memory and Politics 38PS014. Intellectuals, Power and Collective Memory: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives 41PS015. Qualitative Methods in Sociology 44PS016. Methods of field research in Sociology 47PS017. Focus-groups 50PS018. Introduction to Data Analysis Using SPSS 53 ^ PS001. History of Political Thought GENERAL INFORMATION Title History of Political Thought Unit Code PS001 Credit rating 30 Level MA Contact hours 63 Pre-requisite units Co-requisite units Methodology of Sociological Research School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Timur Minyazhev, Dr. Alexander Filippov 2. AIMSThe history of political thought is a basic component of the master’s degree programme on political science. This course is devoted to theoretical exploration in the domain of political thought. We will discuss various topics, varying from ancient understanding of political life and reflections about the tranquility and political stability or upheaval.The course has three overlapping aims:- To provide an advanced, systematic and critical understanding of issues at the forefront of political thought.- Develop the ability to analyze and evaluate a complex body of argument and to interpret main theoretical texts.- To acquaint students with the debate on the key political problems in political theory from ancient time to Modern era. - To provide holistic thinking for students to learn how different political ways of thinking are diverged or can be converged.- To give comprehensive understanding of main currents in the ancient, medieval and modern political thinking.^ 3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNITContent1. The idea of Plato’s Republic.2. Ethics and Politics as a kind of political science of Aristotle.3. The development of stoicism in the Ancient Rome philosophy.4. Augustinian elaboration of the problem of order.5. Saint Thomas Aquinas on Law and Politics.6. The logic of discourses in Marcellus’s 'Defencor Pacis'.7. The rise of utopist thinking in XVI-XVII centuries.8. Niccolò Machiavelli and founding of Modern Political Science 9. Reason of the State and the idea of sovereignty: politicalphilosophy in 16-17 centuries.10-11. The concept of Social contract in political philosophies of T.Hobbes, J. Locke and J. J. Rousseau.12-13. Evolution of natural right from the early modern philosophers toFrench Revolution.14. Moral and politics in Kant's philosophy.15. State and civil society: from the Scottish moral philosophers toHegel's Philosophy of Right.16-17. The idea of freedom and the concept of alienation in Germanclassical idealism and in the Marxist thought.18. Political philosophy and violence: Georges Sorel and WalterBenjamin.19. The concept of the political: Carl Schmitt.20. The evil, the responsibility and the freedom in the politicalthought of Hannah Arendt.21. What is Political Thought? Sum of course. Core Reading- Balot, R. K. A companion to Greek and Roman political thought. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009- Burns, J. H. & Goldie, M. The Cambridge history of political thought, 1450-1700. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991- Coleman, Janet. A History of political Thought. From Ancient Greece to Early Christianity. Oxford ; Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2000- Dryzek J.S., Honig B., Phillips A. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006- Losco J. & Williams L. (ed) Political Theory. Classical Writing. Contemporary Views. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1992- Rowe, C. J., & Schofield, M. The Cambridge history of Greek and Roman political thought (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005- The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700 / by J. H. Burns,Mark Goldie (eds)- The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought / Ed. ByTerence Ball- Skinner Q. Visions of Politics. Vol. 1-3. Cambdridge, 2002.- Rawls J., Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy / Ed. By BarbaraHerrmann. Cambdridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000.- Cohen J. & Arato A. Civil society and political theory.Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1994.^ 4. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - understand the main definitions and concepts in the history of political thought;- understand the development of political thought; - understand the social and historical conditions which related; to particularity of political tractates; Intellectual skills - develop the ability to make a comparative analysis of the political modes of thought;- develop the ability to describe and analyze the works of particular political thinker;- develop the ability of critical and analytic (research) skills; Practical skills - advanced communication skills to present their own understanding of the history of political thought;- using political concepts to describe the continuity of political thought; - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- read, write and communicate in English on academic topics;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing - Written exam^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 1st 3000-5000 words 2nd 8000-10000 words 20% 60% Written Exam 20 % ^ Date of current version 12 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS002. Methodology of Sociological Research GENERAL INFORMATION Title Methodology of Sociological Research Unit code PS002 Credit rating 30 Level MA Contact hours 63 Pre-requisite units - Co-requisite units History of political thought School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Department of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Victor Vakhshtayn, Dr. Olesia Kirchic, Dmitriy Kurakin AIMS The overall aim of this course is to provide understanding of both epistemological and methodological issues in research process. In accordance with this core aim, course is divided into two basic parts. Within first module fundamental questions of social and political sciences epistemology will be considered: i.e., connection between theoretical framework and empirical data, consistency of different stages of research process, demarcation between scientific and ordinary knowledge. Within second one different methods, used in sociological research process, along with possibilities and ways of their application will be examined. With regard of the core aim some special objectives were formulated:- To promote a reflection on fundamental questions on epistemology of social and political sciences;- To introduce basic epistemological concepts and approaches to research process and its stages;- To introduce basic research methods and to develop ability to analyze advantages and disadvantages of them in regard to researcher aims.- To form an ability to develop research design (from constructing theoretical framework to interpretation of empirical data).^ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. Description of basic epistemological problems within social and political sciences. Correspondence between theory and practice within sociological research. 2. The problem of demarcation between scientific and ordinary knowledge. 3.The place and function of metaphor in epistemology of social sciences.4. Opposition between apriorism and empiricism.5. Anatomy of research model: concept, operational definition, data, interpretation. 6. Definition of method. Different types of methods’ classification. 7. Ethnographic method. Participant / non-participant observation, ethnographic interview. Limitations of ethnographic methodes.8. Classical causal analyses. Variables types. Different understandings of correlation. Sample types and sample design.9. Historical method.10. Relational method (social topology).11. Discourse analyses.12. From concepts to operational definitions.13. Methodological architecture: from data gathering to data processing.14. The art and science of interpretation15. Writing Conclusions.Core ReadingBryman, Alan. Social research methods. 3rd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, (p. 181-200: content-analysis; p. 521-537: doing a research project).Current Debates in Epistemology (eds. Matthias Steup, Ernest Sosa). (2005). Blackwell Publishing.Goldthorpe, John H. (2000). ^ Numbers, narratives, and the integration of research and theory. Oxford University Press.Le Roux, Brigitte & Rouanet, Henry. (2004). Geometric Data Analysis. Dordrecht: Kluwer.Strauss, Anselm & Corbin, Juliet. (1990). Basics of qualitative research. Sage Publications.^ What is a case? Exploring the foundations of social inquiry (Howard S. Becker, Charles Ragin eds.). (1992). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Батыгин Г.С. Лекции по методологии социологических исследований. М., 2000. (Batygin G. Lectures in methodology of sociological research.)Константиновский Д.Л., Вахштайн В.С., Куракин Д.Ю. Реальность образования и исследовательские реальности. М., 2010. (Konstantinovskiy D., Vakhshtayn V., Kurakin D. Reality of education and research realties. Sociological research from metaphor to narrative.)^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - understand main epistemological and methodological issues of sociological research;- know fundamental concepts and approaches to research process and its stages;- know basic sociological research methods, its advantages and disadvantages, possibilities and ways of their application. Intellectual skills - develop the ability to analyze different research projects;- develop the ability to describe and analyze different approaches to research process;- promote a reflection on epistemological and methodological issues of sociological research. Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- read, write and communicate in English on academic topics;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing ^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) 2 Essays 1st – 3000 words2nd - 5000 words 30%70% ^ Date of current version 12 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS003. Twentieth-Century Political Theory 1. GENERAL INFORMATION Title Twentieth-Century Political Theory Unit code PS003 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Department of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Timofey Dmitriev AIMS The main purpose of the course is to gain an understanding and appreciation of the work of some of the most important and influential political theorists of the 20th century. More specifically, the present course aspires to illuminate some characteristic changes that occurred within the framework of the twentieth-century political theory in comparison with the earlier periods of its development and to relate these shifts to the major economic, political, cultural and ideological transformations ushered in the West and the world at large by the previous century. The course will focus on the changes in the understanding of political rationality, representation, legitimacy, autonomy and coercion, agency-structure nexus, moral dimension of politics. The waning of some themes crucial to the earlier political thought, like sovereignty, public weal, general will, etc., and the rise of some others, like totalitarianism, mass politics, reduction of democracy to “a method”, ambivalent connections between liberalism, democracy and capitalism, etc., are to be explored and explained in this course either.The purposes in regard with curriculum are: - To acquaint students with the debate on the key political problems in the twentieth-century political theory - To deepen students ideas about basic concepts of political theory with particular reference to questions of the interpretation of Modernity, the nature of political thinking and rationality, and of such key concepts as politics, State, power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and democracy- To develop the ability to analyze and evaluate a complex body of argument and to interpret main theoretical texts ^ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. Emile Durkheim2. Max Weber 3. Joseph Schumpeter 4. Friedrich von Hayek5. John Dewey6. Hannah Arendt7. Herbert MarcuseCore Reading- Arendt H. On Revolution. N.Y.: Viking Press, 1965. Ch. 6.- Arendt H. The Human Condition. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958. Chs. 4-10, 24-35, 42-45.- Dewey J. Freedom and Culture. N. Y., 1939. Ch. 1, 2, 5. - Dewey J. The Public and Its Problems. An Essay in Political Inquiry. Chicago: Gateway Books, 1946. Chs. 1, 3, 4, 6.- Dewey J. Political Writings. Ed. D. Morris and I. Shapiro. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co, 1993. P.p. 32-47, 77-88, 158-160, 169-172, 234-245.- Durkheim E. Division of Labour; Suicide. Moscow, 1991 (In Russian)- Durkheim E. Professional Ethics and Civic Morals. L.-N.Y.: Routledge, 1992. Chs. 1-9, 15-18.- Hayek F.A. “Individualism: True and False”. In: Hayek. Individualism and Economic Order. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948.- Hayek F.A. “The Errors of Constructivism”; “Economic Freedom and Representative Government”. In: Hayek. New Studies in Philisophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas. L.: Rouledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.- Hayek F.A. Law, Legislation and Liberty. Vol. 1, chapters 2, 4; vol. 2, chapter 11; vol. 3, chapters 16, 17, 18, Epilogue. L.: Routledge, 1993.- Marcuse H. Negations. Essays in Critical Theory. L.: Allen Lane, 1968. Chs. 1, 4.- Schumpeter. “An Economic Interpretation of Our Time: The Lowell Lectures”. In: J.A. Schumpeter. The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism. Ed. R. Swedberg. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton University Press, 1991 (p.p. 339-345, 358-363).- Schumpeter J.A. “Social Classes in an Ethnically Homogeneous Environment”, In J.A. Schumpetert, Imperialism and Social Classes. Ed. P. Sweezy, N.Y.: Augustus M. Kelley, 1989.- Weber M. ^ Selected Works. “Politics as Vocation”; “On the Concept of Sociology and the Meaning of Social Conduct”; “Characteristic Forms of Social Conduct”. Moscow, 1990 (In Russian).- Weber M. Selections in Translations / Ed. by W.G.Runciman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. 43-64; 226-262 (essays "Classes, Status Groups and Parties"; “The Nature of Charismatic Domination”, “Socialism”).^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - be aware of the socio-cultural background which informed the major trends in the twentieth-century political theory; - understand the intellectual and socio-critical role of political philosophy vis-a-vis modern (primarily instrumental) social knowledge and the practices of “late capitalism” and (defunct) socialism;- know ideas about basic concepts of political theory of the 20th century such as State, power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and democracy; Intellectual skills - use basic concepts of a political theory of the 20th century properly;- be able to critically assess the conceptual and ideological developments in the twentieth-century liberalism, conservatism and neo-marxism; - acquire skills to apply what is useful in the twentieth-century political theory discussed in this course to the understanding of the Russian political history and, in particular, its post-communist period; Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- read, write and communicate in English on academic topics;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) ant tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing ^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 5000 words 100% ^ Date of current version 10 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS004. Postmodern French Political Philosophy GENERAL INFORMATION Title Postmodern French Political Philosophy Unit code PS004 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought, Method of Sociological Research Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Peter Safronov AIMS First and foremost the course will demonstrate what does it mean - to make political philosophy in France. Although there are some perennial questions (eg. what is political power itself) French political philosophy is extremely connected with the issues of the day. It is not just the field for academic debates but also a way of declaring certain political claims. The range of this claims as well as their philosophical origins and social effects will be examined in the course. My aim as a researcher is to understand what happens to the political philosophy when it appears to be a direct political action. The purposes in regard with curriculum are: - To acquaint students with the key concepts of French political philosophy such as community, identity, event, intellectuals, desire, communism, critique- To promote students critical reflection about the future of political thought in Western democratic societies- To identify how various approaches in political philosophy work on modern sociology, social work and politics ^ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. Sources of French political thought: Marx, Nietzshe, Freud. Is it possible to remove subjectivity from politics? 2. What is (political) power? Dominance and the body. 3. Do we still have classes? Political imagination and collective arrangement of social life. 4. How to think politics without intentions? Functioning of desiring machines. 5. What does “community” mean? The fall and rise of communism. 6. Political communication? Mass media and mass production of signs. 7. Politics as reality. Do we still have something like that?. Core Reading- Baudrillard J. Symbolic Exchange and Death. Ian Hamilton Grant (trans.) L., 1994.- Cheah Ph. & Guerlac S. (eds.) Derrida and the Time of the Political. Durham, 2009.- Derrida J. Specters of Marx. Peggy Kamuf (trans.) NY., 1994.- Deleuze J. & Guattari F. Anti-Oedipus. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane (trans.) NY., 1977- Foucault M. Discipline and Punish. Alan Sheridan (trans.) NY., 1977.- Han B. Foucault's Critical Project. Stanford, 2002. - Holland E. Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis. NY., 1999.- Kellner D. Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, Cambridge and Palo Alto,1989. ^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should/will (please delete as appropriate) be able to: Knowledge and understanding - understand connections between basic concepts of postmodern French political philosophy;- know ideas of postmodern political philosophers in France about present and future state of the liberal democracy and capitalism;- know how French postmodern political philosophy effects on modern social science; Intellectual skills - identify proper and improper use of the basic concepts within the French postmodern political philosophy;- analyze strategies of argumentation used in postmodern philosophy and their political implications;- develop independently logic of the postmodern approach the political questions;- understand limitations and ideological backgrounds of French postmodern political philosophy; Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing ^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 3000-5000 words 100% ^ Date of current version 12 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS005. Sociology of Power GENERAL INFORMATION Title Sociology of Power Unit code PS005 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought, Method of Sociological Research Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Peter Safronov AIMS From the very beginning there was a kind of divergence between pluralist and elitist conceptions in sociology of power. The modifications of this dilemma still remain very helpful for investigations of power, especially for understanding of the leadership nature. The course will demonstrate how political power realizes on different kinds of subjects and how their interaction can facilitate or oppose the implementation of public good. Further I will discuss peculiarities of power within the framework of local communities in respect of urban political regimes formation. My aim is to demonstrate how power is distributed in modern society and to show under what conditions power is legitimated (or not legitimated) as authority.The purposes in regard with curriculum are: - To acquaint students with the development of sociology of power during last decades and the key concepts of this field such as democracy, political participation, community, state, social movement- To deepen students’ ideas about the power transformations nowadays- To identify influence of various theoretical approaches in sociology of power on sociological work “in the field“^ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. Who governs? The classical question of the sociology of power and critical reactions on it. 2. What is power in community? Power structures in local communities and membership of the decision-making. 3. How power is legitimated? Power and authority in modern state. 4. How to think about struggle for power today? Problem of elites and producing social inequality. 5. What does “international power” mean? Power in the age of globalization. 6. Political participation? Citizens, social movements, political parties. 7. Power and mass communication. What is the interaction between power and information? Core Reading- Kloby J. Inequality, Power and Development: Issues in Political Sociology. 2d ed. NY., 2004.- Lukes S. Power: A Radical View. L., 2005.- Nash K. (ed.) Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics and Power. Oxford, 2000- Orum A.M. & Dale J.G. Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World. 5th. ed.Oxford, 2008.- Schwartz D. Culture and Power: the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Ch., 1997.^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should/will (please delete as appropriate) be able to: Knowledge and understanding - understand clearly the range of basic concepts meaning within sociology of power;- know main approaches in the sociology of power and understand their premises;- know how political power can influence lives of citizens and vice versa; Intellectual skills - identify proper and improper use of the basic concepts within the modern sociology of power;- analyze strategies of argumentation used in sociology of power and their political effect;- distinguish different theoretical approaches in sociology of power and develop their logic; - understand limitations and ideological backgrounds of contemporary political sociology; Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 3000-5000 words 100% ^ Date of current version 14 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS006. International Relations: Evolution and Theory GENERAL INFORMATION Title International Relations: Evolution and Theory Unit code PS006 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought, Method of Sociological Research Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Arutyun (Artyom) Ulunyan ^ AIMS In accordance with the chief aim of the course the programme has for its object to educate students in an environment that emphasizes advanced knowledge, scientific approach and critical thinking that give an idea of an essence of International relations, its combined multiple character, background immanence, theoretical foundations and evolutionary potential. In the area of the chosen subject the following goals being placed on an agenda are supposed to be reached:- to introduce existing concepts of International relations and its interpretations by world’s leading schools of thought from the perspective of political science;- to create a coherent image of systems of International relations since its recognition as a dominating mode of interaction and interplay between relevant subjects, including governments, economic systems, labour and multinational corporations acting on the international scene;- to define the role and place of think-tanks and lobbying groups in decision-making process including their contribution to the development of an agenda and international discourse;- to set forth theoretical foundations of International relations and its regional projects of geospatial restructuring as it is being done in the new generation of foreign policy doctrines.^ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT ContentInternational relations: Definition and Understanding from a historical point of view in political science. a) Diversity of definitions of International relations; b) Complexities of foreign policy and structural elements of International relations through historical perspective.Conceptual approaches to the international developments.Types and forms of existing concepts of International relations;Past and present schools of International relations’ thought: unity and diversity.Systems of International relations through political and historical perspective. Critical and comparative analysis.Mode of interplay between relevant subjects in International relations.Definitions of status of the actors in the International relations;Peculiarities of interplay of different subjects in International relations.Historical and political background of think-tanks’ activity worldwide. Current political and expert role of think-tanks. Emergence of the predecessors of think-tanks;Modern think-tanks and decision-making process and their influence on formulating International relations’ agenda in democratic societies; 6. Lobbyism and its national peculiarities. 7. Global and regional concepts of geospatial restructuring and their role in International relations in historical perspective and political strategy.Core Reading- Geiger A. EU Lobbying Handbook. Helios Media GmbH, 2007;Krahlisch D. Lobbyismus in Deutschland – Am Beispiel des Dieselpartikelfilters. VDM Verlag - Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2007;- Linklater A. International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Routledge, 2000; - Linklater A., Suganami H. The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Assessment . Cambridge University Press, 2006; - Markwell D. John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace, Oxford University Press. Oxford & New York, 2006; - Theories of International Relations. Ed. by Linklater A., Burchill S. Palgrave, 2005; - Ulunyan Ar. New Political Geography. Eurasia’s Reshapement. Historized Foreign Geoconcepts. Late XX-th – early XXI-st centuries. Moscow, IWH RAS, 2009 (Originally in Russian Улунян Ар. А. Новая политическая география. Переформатируя Евразию. Историзированные зарубежные геоконцепты. Конец ХХ в. – начало ХХI в. - М.: ИВИ РАН, 2009);- Vigezzi B. The British committee on the theory of international politics (1954–1985): the rediscovery of history. Milano: Edizioni Unicopli, 2005;- Waltz K. Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience. Little, Brown and Company. New York: 1967;- Wight M. Four seminal thinkers in international theory : Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, and Mazzini. 2005. ^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - learn basic concepts of International relations – know main postulates of leading modern schools of International relations, basic theoretical, scientific and analytical approaches to International relations from historical and political perspectives, - understand role and place of think-tanks in decision-making process and of foreign policy lobbyism in International relations; - understand characteristic features of evolution of International relations; - understand practical meaning of geospatial projects in foreign policy; Intellectual skills - develop the capacity of describing and analyzing International relations’ systems on the basis of existing theoretical methods;- develop the ability to understand a mechanism of decision-making process in International relations;- determine role and place of main actors in International relations to produce its coherent vision; Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- read, write and communicate in English on academic topics;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing ^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 3000-5000 words 100% ^ Date of current version 12 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS007. Nation State in the Age of Globalization GENERAL INFORMATION Title Nation State in the Age of Globalization Unit code PS007 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought, Method of Sociological Research Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Vladimir Malakhov AIMS The main purpose of the course is to demystify the debate on “globalization”. On the one hand the term “globalization” designates a system of believes and expectations, on the other hand it reflects an objective transformation process. One of the myth wide spread in the “globalization” debate is the thesis on the demise of nation state. Although the state sovereignty is restricted, the state as such is far from disappearing. Two different issues - the future of sovereignty and the future of state might not be confused. So my aim as a researcher is to examine what happens to the nation state and its institutions under the global condition. The purposes in regard with curriculum are: - To acquaint students with the recent scientific debate on the place and functions of nation state in the globalizing world- To deepen students ideas about basic concepts of political theory such as State, power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and human rights- To demonstrate how various methods of modern social science work with reference to the problems of globalization ^ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. How to think globalization? Neo-liberalism, as an Ideology of “globalism”. Critical Perspectives: Marxism, World-System Theory, Conservatism.2. Will sovereignty survive? Three dimensions of sovereignty: economic, military-political, cultural. 3. State and Global Economy. Dismantling the welfare state. How global is the “global economy”? 4. “Developing countries”, or the “Third world”. The problem of exclusion. Protectionism versus free trade. WTO and “national interests”.5. State and Global Policy. New world (dis)order. Shaping new power relations. The problem of “global governance”: legitimacy and efficiency.6. Global civil society? Human rights protection as a global concern.7. Nation-States in the Face of “Global Culture”. “Informationalism” and the “de-territorialization” of culture. What means “global culture”?Core Reading- Barber B. Can Democracy Survive Globalization? – Government and Opposition. L., 2000.- Bauman Z. Globalization: The Human Consequences. Cambridge, 1998.- Cox R.W. with Sinclair T.J. Approaches to World Order. Cambridge, 1996.Featherstone M. Global Culture. Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. L., 1990.- Held D. Democracy and the Global Order. Cambridge, 1995.- Mann M. Has Globalization Ended the Rise of the Nation State? – Review of International Political Economy. 1997. No.4.- Omae K. The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy. NY., 1999.- Robertson R./ Knondker H. Discourses of Globalization: Preliminary Considerations. – International Sociology. L., 1999. Vol.13, No.1. P. 25-40.- Steve S. The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. Oxford, 1997.- Wallerstein I. The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s. San Diego, NY, Berkeley etc.,1989.- Waters M. Globalization. L., NY, 1996.^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - know scientific debate on the place and functions of nation state in the globalizing world- know ideas about basic concepts of political theory such as State, power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and human rights- understand how various methods of modern social science work with reference to the problems of globalization Intellectual skills - use basic concepts of a political science properly, not confusing popular sovereignty and territorial sovereignty, power and violence, legitimacy and legality etc.- distinguish separate approaches in political theory of today (Marxism, postmarxism, World- system theory, postmodernism, social constructivism)- develop independently logic of these approaches- recognize ideological backgrounds of different approaches to the problems of globalization (neoliberalism, conservative and new left critique on 'globalism’. Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- read, write and communicate in English on academic topics;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) and tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing ^ ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 3000-5000 words 70% Written Exam 30% ^ Date of current version 12 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS008. Theory of Marginality 1. GENERAL INFORMATION Title Theory of Marginality Unit code PS008 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought, Methods of Sociological Research Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Department of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Svetlana Bankovskaya 2. AIMS The course aims at developing a conceptual framework of reference for the sociological and political analysis of the marginality as a specific social type, process, and relationship; to depict the uses of this framework. With regard of these core objectives some special tasks are to be formulated: to establish the contingency of this term with the basic sociological concepts that are generally used to get the idea of marginality; to work out a theoretical operationalization of the "marginality" in the context of such processes of the destabilised society as desocialisation and re-socialisation, social/cultural/political exclusion, hybridisation and diffusion. The central questions are: What is a relationship between multiculturalism and exclusion in the modern social settings (particularly in the post-soviet space)? How at all persons are moved to marginal positions, or how they are made to be marginals, what compels them to perform as marginals? What is the specific of this performance in the political action (the case of post-soviet citizenship)The purposes in regard with curriculum are: To make clear the basic concepts and approaches to the marginality issues both in the history of social sciences and contemporary debate;To set forth the main directions in the theoretical logic of the analysis of MarginalityTo distinguish between different disciplinary approaches (philosophy, sociology, political science, social geography, cultural science, etc.) to the Marginality issueTo show the uses of the marginality analysis by the case study (post-soviet citizenship)^ 3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. Definitions and Classifications. The Other - The Stranger - The Enemy. Space/Time/Movement. Marginality/Marginalization/Marginal tipes.2. Distinction, Ordering, In-Betweenness. Conflict as a source of marginality.3. Mobility, fluidity and fixation. Border and Frontier. Comparative analysis of Frontiers. 4. Marginality and Time dimension. The Presence/Absence dialectics in marginal position. Rutinization of the Marginal5. Marginality: functional and formal meaning.Participation/exclusion. Marginal as an observer. 6. Ambivalence, abeyance and contingency: marginal as a radical and as a conservative.7. Astrangement/Assymilation/Normalization and the problem of Control. Global marginal. Marginal as an “ideal type” in the modern society. Some Performatives of the marginal type: Cosmopolitans, Refugees, Estranged Natives, Outsiders, Exiles, etcCore ReadingSimmel, G. Conflict and the Web of group affiliations. - Glencoe, Ill., Free Press, 1955Levine, D N. Simmel at a Distance: On the History and Systematics of the Sociology of the Stranger// Sociological Focus, 1977, vol. 10: 15-29.Park, R. E. Human migration and the marginal man// American J.of Sociology, 1928, vol. 33 (May): 881-93.Stonequist, E. The Marginal man. A study in personality and culture conflict. New York: Scribner’s, 1937.Schutz, A. The Homecomer//American J. Of Sociology, 1945, vol. 50 (March): 369-76.Tabboni, S. The Stranger and Modernity: From Equality of Rights to Recognition of Difference.//Thesis Eleven, 1995, Vol. 43.Bhabha H.K. The Other Question: Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism. In: Out There: Marginalisation and Contemporary Cultures/ Ed. by R. Ferguson et al. - The HIT Press, Cam., Mass., L., 1990. P. 71-87Turner, F. J. The frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner. With a foreword by Ray Allen Billinton . - New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston , 1965Herrick, R. The paradox of marginality// Our sociological eye. Personal essays on society and culture. Port Washington (N.Y.), 1977.Mancini B.J. No owner of soil: the concept of marginality revisited on its sixtieth birthday// Intern. rev. of modern sociology. 1988, vol. 18, No 2. P. 183-204.Germani, G. Marginality. New Brunswick (New Jersey): Transaction Books, 1980.Merton R.K. Sociological ambivalence and other essays. N.Y., 1976.Mizruchi E.H. Regulating society: marginality and social control in historical perspective. Chicago, 1983.Schmitt C. Der Begriff des Politischen. Text von 1932 mit einem Vorwort und drei Corollarien. Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 1963. S. 20-78.4. ^ INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - know origins and classical concepts of marginality and marginal man;- know main points of the contemporary social and political debate on the marginality issues;- understand the logic of theoretical succession from the “Stranger” to the different modern marginal types;- realize the basic/ontological descendence of the Marginal from the Other Intellectual skills - distinguish «marginality» as sociological concept from the popular notions and biases on marginality, as well as from the term «marginality» used in other social sciences; - use interdisciplinary context for the marginality theoretical analysis (ideas from the sociology of space and time, from social/cultural anthropology, from conflict theories, from human geography, from geopolitics, etc); - depict and sociologically analyze the cases of marginality in the current social processes of change.- develop critical thinking and in situ research skills Practical skills - resolve problems: identify the features of problem, including aspects of risk and select approaches and solutions;- identify desired communication outcomes; enhance understanding and engagement by academic and professional audiences;- research independently, by identifying and managing library and information resources including online, correctly citing, acknowledging and referencing sources;- undertake effectively independent and self-managed learning; Transferable skills and personal qualities - effective written and oral communication;- reflect and write analytically; - engage in scientific discussion and deliver creative and original thought; - find information and use information technology (including e-library resources)- exercise self-reliance skills and develop independent learning ability;- manage time and work to deadlines. ^ 5. LEARNING AND TEACHING PROCESSES (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) - Contact hours: lections (70%) ant tutorials (30%). - Private assignment preparation - Directed reading (paper and electronic texts) - Essay writing ^ 6. ASSESSMENT (INCLUDING THE USE OF E-LEARNING) Assessment task Length Weighting within unit (if relevant) Essay 5000 words 100% ^ Date of current version 12 March 2010 Approved by Deans’ meeting 23 March 2010 ^ PS009. Nationalism as Political Ideology 1. GENERAL INFORMATION Title Nationalism as Political Ideology Unit code PS009 Credit rating 15 Level MA Contact hours 21 Pre-requisite units History of Political Thought, Method of Sociological Research Co-requisite units School responsible Moscow School of Social & Economic Science (Faculty of Political Science) Member of staff responsible Dr. Vladimir Malakhov 2. AIMS The main purpose of the course is to represent nationalism as a specific political ideology and to clarify the co-relation between nationalism and other political ideologies of modernity. In this connection, the course should make clear the specificity of nationalist discourse compared with socialist, liberal, fascist and other modern political discourses. The course presents the main theories of nationalism and analyses the key problems of contemporary “nationalism studies”. In addition, the course covers such important and controversial issues of modern political theory as: - nation-building versus state-building, - nationalism and democracy, - nationalism and multiculturalism, - the nation-state and the global economy. Students will also learn about the current stand of “ethnic and racial studies”.^ 3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT Content1. Main concepts of the course: - Nation and Nationalism; State-building and Nation-building; Nationality and Ethnicity. - Sovereignty; Loyalty; Legitimacy; Identity2. Nationalism versus other political ideologies. Nationalism and Socialism. Nationalism and Liberalism. Political nationalism and ethnic nationalism.3. Nationalism and patriotism. Nationalism and statism. Nationalism and imperialism. Nationalism and colonialism. Nationalism and fascism. 4. Neo-Nationalism? Nationalism and racism. Pan-Nationalisms. Nationalism and globalization. Nationalism and regionalism.5. Contemporary theories of nationalism. Theory of communication, neo-Marxism, functionalism, social constructivism. Main controversies in the nationalism studies of 90’s.6. Nationalism in Post-Soviet countries. ”Ethnic Revival” as Challenge to Political Science.Nationalism and ethnic conflict.7. Nation State and cultural pluralism. Nationalism and multiculturalism.Core Reading- Balibar E./ Wallerstein I. Rasse, classe, nation: les identites ambiguёs. Paris, 1988 (in French)- Berger P, Lukmann T. The Social Construction of Reality. Moscow, 1995 (in Russian)- Blondel V. (Ed.) Identities in Transition. Eastern Europe and Russia after the Collapse of Communism. Berlkey, 1996.- Connor W. Ethno nationalism: The quest for Understanding. Princeton (N.J.) 1994- Diamond L. /Plattner M.F. Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Democracy. Baltimore, London, 1994.- Gellner E. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford, 1983- Giddens A. The Nation-State and Violence. Oxford, 1985.- Habsbawm E. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, NY, Melbourne 1990- Horowitz D. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkley, 1985.- Miles R. Racism. L., 1984.^ 4. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES Category of outcome Students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding - understand the nationalism phenomenon as a specific political ideology of modernity;- understand the co-relation between nationalist discourse and socialist, liberal, fascist and other modern political discourses;- know main theories of nationalism and the key problems of contemporary “nationalism studies”;- understand such important and controversial issues of modern political theory as nation-building versus state-building, nationalism and democracy, nationalism and multiculturalism, the nation-state and the global economy; Intellectual skills - specify nationalism as a political ideology;- ability of the main theories of nationalism;- analysis various types of nationalistic discourse;- critically discuss problems of the contemporary “nationalism studies”;- assess the role of nationalism in recent po