Historical sociology

Recognizing the historical discontinuity of sociology as an expression of the historical discontinuity of the West, this three-parted course seeks to analyze the social history of the Western civilization
1. In the first part (Sociology of Modernity) we show that in its first (naturalistic) phase sociology is constituted as a science of history, then in the second (sociological) phase as a science about society and in the third (contemporary) phase as postmodernist self-reflection
2. In the second part (Sociology of Postmodernity), we explain how the discursive habit of postmodern sociology is constituted outside the principle of modernity. Losing the utopian dimension and turning to the self-reflexive acquisition of the past, contemporary sociology loses the potential of an expansive modernistic acquisition of the future through the manipulative (re)construction of space and time. Then, starting from the self-reflexive positions of contemporary sociology, this module finds the discursive power of the (re)construction of reality as the fundamental pragmatism of the self with which the West has shaped its history as a continuum and therefore normatively universal
3. In the third part (Sociology of Tradition) on the trail of the postmodernist deconstruction of the idea of the Enlightenment and the normative universality of the West, we show that postmodern opens a discursive space for the rehabilitation of the basic ideas of the pre-modern (in our case of Orthodox) tradition

Students should build a critical-deconstructive attitude towards the Western tradition and develop an affirmative attitude towards their own traditions.

1. Positivist, sociological and symbolic phase in historical structure of sociological science
2. Universal, general, theoretical and conceptual paradigm in structure of sociological science
3. The metatheoretical and epistemological turn of contemporary sociology (from nomothetic to idiographic metatheory; from ontological realism to ontological relativism; from epistemological objectivism to epistemological relationalism)
4. A premodern, modern and post-modern picture of the world.
5. Modern as development of instrumental rationalityand abolition of the transcendental dimension of reality
6. Phase Modernization (liberal and monopolistic capitalism, welfare state, socialism and communism, and neoliberalism)
7. The social role of communism (the demolition of the monarchy, the abolition of patriarchal domestic cooperatives, atheism)
8. Globalization as the expansion of the Western structure of self-identity into a global identity space (power, profit, individualism and entertainment)
9. The notion, dimensions and theories of globalization
10. Personality. Aesthetic, ethical and religious phases in the development of personality
11. Forms of collective identification (Demos, Ethnos, Laos)
12. Religious basics (geo) politics. Geopolitical subjects of Western civilization. Eurasianism.
13. Europe and the Balkans (intentionality and eschatology)
14. Politics and culture. Democracy and catholicity
15. Nation and nationalism as cultural phenomena

1. Subotić, M., Na drugi pogled. Prilog studijama nacionalizma, Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd, 2007.

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2. Koprivica, Č., Budućnost straha i nade, Art Print, Banja Luka, 2011.

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3. Šijaković, B., Pred licem drugog, Službeni list, Beograd, 2002.

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4. Berđajev, N., Sudbina čovjeka u savremenom svijetu. Za razumijevanje naše epohe, Verbum, Split, 2007.

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5. Arsović, Z., Ono što nakon Haga ostaje, Banja Luka, 2010.

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Knowledge testing will be carried out during the semester through colloquium and seminar papers, and at the end of the semester in the form of an academic talk.

Teaching will be performed in the form of lectures and exercises. Lectures will be structured through thematic theoretical lectures of the teaching units and discussion. Exercises will be organized through a theoretical analysis of literature whose understanding the student proves by continuously creating and defending seminar work. During the semester, through lectures and exercises, the teaching lessons will be examined partially through two obligatory colloquiums. After fulfilled pre-examination obligations (colloquiums and seminar papers), students gain the right to lay the entire teaching matter in the form of academic talk (final exam).