Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Communication and Cultural Theories
Course Code
KF_017
Branch of Science
Communication Theory; Media and communications
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Communication Science
LQF
Level 8
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Sergejs Kruks
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To deepen knowledge of students in cultural and communication theories; to create understanding about differences in liberal Anglo-Saxon and contextual continental intellectual traditions and their meaning in communication research; to contextualise the discourse of Latvian cultural and communication scientists.
Preliminary Knowledge
Classical and modern sociology theories, Philosophy.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.About theoretical traditions, concepts and models of communication and culture.
Skills
1.To analyse communication and cultural phenomena in different theoretical paradigms.
Competences
1.To critically evaluate, compare, use and develop theoretical paradigms in academic publications and in the doctoral thesis.
Assessment
Individual work
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Work with theoretical literature and preparation of two reports linking the topic of the doctoral thesis to the substance of the study course.
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Examination
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Reports have been prepared and presented.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Auditorium
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Continental and liberal intellectual tradition. Agency and structure. Liberal, communitarian and discursive civic society.
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Continental and liberal intellectual tradition. Agency and structure. Liberal, communitarian and discursive civic society.
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Communication models in liberalism, conservatism, romanticism and cultural nationalism paradigms.
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Communication models in liberalism, conservatism, romanticism and cultural nationalism paradigms.
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Evolution of cultural theories: social integration, symbolisation, action, ideology.
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Evolution of cultural theories: social integration, symbolisation, action, ideology.
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Communication theories: system and traditions of social psychology.
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Communication theories: symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and ethnomethodology.
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Communication theories: critique and normative.
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Communication theories: semiotics and linguistic manipulation.
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Cultural turn and linguistic turn.
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Lotman’s cultural semiotics. Cultural studies and culturology. Cultural theory and the new institutionalism. Realistic theory.
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Lotman’s cultural semiotics. Cultural studies and culturology. Cultural theory and the new institutionalism. Realistic theory.
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Culture and communication in discourse of Latvian scientists.
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Interaction between culture and communication theories.
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Interaction between culture and communication theories.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Archer, M. (1996) Culture and Agency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2.
Berlin, I. (1999) The Roots of Romanticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
3.
Bonnell V., L. Hunt (1999) Beyond the Cultural Turn. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
4.
Bryant, J., D. Zillman (eds.) (2002) Media effects: Advances in theory and research. 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
5.
Carey , J. W. ( 1989) Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
6.
Chaney, D. (1994) The Cultural Turn. London: Routledge.
7.
Curran, J., M. Gurevitch (eds.) (2005) Mass media and society. London: Oxford University Press.
8.
Dudley, W. (2007) Understanding German Idealism. Stocksfield Hall: Acumen Publishing.
9.
Eco, U. (1999) Kant and the Platypus : Essays on Language and Cognition. New York: Harcourt Brace.
10.
Elliott, A. and B. S. Turner (2012) On Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
11.
Garfinkel, H. (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
12.
Giddens, A. ( 1990) The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press.
13.
Goffman, E. (1971) Expression Games. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
14.
Habermas, J. (1991) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. MIT Press.
15.
Habermas, J. 1990. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Cambridge: Polity Press.
16.
Horkheimer , M., T. W. Adorno (1991) Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Continuum.
17.
Kaiser, David Aram (1999) Romanticism, aesthetics, and nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18.
Kalberg, S. (1987) “The Origin and Expansion of Kulturpessimismus: The Relationship between Public and Private Spheres in Early Twentieth Century Germany”, Sociological Theory 5(2): 150-164.McQuail, D. (2010) McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory. 6th ed. London: SAGE.
19.
Kruks, S. (2012) “Semiozes izpratne latviešu avotos: Valodnieku un mākslas zinātnieku zīmes koncepciju kritika”, Letonica 23:52-66.
20.
Liebes, T., E. Katz (1990) The Export of Meaning: Cross -Cultural Readings of Dallas. New York: Oxford University Press.
21.
Lotman, Yu. (1990) Universe of the mind. A semiotic theory of culture. London: I.B.Tauris.
22.
MacIntyre, A. C. 1984. After Virtue. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.
23.
Mead, G.H. (1934) Mind, Self, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
24.
Schutz, A. (1982) Life Forms and Meaning Structure. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
25.
Sewell, H.W. Jr.(1999) “The Concept(s) of Culture.” In V. E. Bonnell, L. Hunt (eds) Beyond the cultural turn. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
26.
Short, P. (2007) Peirce’s Theory of Signs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
27.
Swidler, Ann (1986) ‘Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies’, American Sociological Review 51(2):273-286.
28.
Webster, Frank (2006) Theories of the Information Society. Cambridge: Routledge.
29.
Smith, P. (2001) Cultural Theory. Oxford Blackwell.
30.
Christians, C., T. L. Glasser, D. McQuail, K. Nordenstreng, R. A. White (2009) Normative theories of the media. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Additional Reading
1.
Alexander, J. (2010) The Performance of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2.
Alexander, J., B. Giesen, J. Mast (eds) (2006) Social Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3.
Bauman, Z. ( 2000) Liquid Modernity. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
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Bauman, Z. (1999) Culture as Practice. London: Sage.
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Bourdieu, P. (2005) Language and symbolic power. London: Harvard University Press.
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Bottomore, T. (2002) The Frankfurt School and its Critics. London: Routledge.
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Hall, J., M.J. Neitz, M. Battani (2003) Sociology on Culture. London: Routledge.
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Jenkins, R. (1992) Pierre Bourdieu. London: Routledge.
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Moore, J. (ed.) (2009) Visions of culture. An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and theorists. New York: Altamira Press.
10.
Nöth, W. (1995) Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomigton: Indiana University Press.
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Pawlett, W. (2007) Jean Baudrillard. London: Routledge.
12.
Ritzer, G. (2005) Encyclopedia of Social Theory. London: Sage.
13.
Smith, G. (2006) Erving Goffman. London: Routledge.
14.
DeFleur, M. L., S. Ball-Rokeach (1989) Theories of mass communication. 5th ed. New York: Longman.
15.
Mouzelis, N. (1995) Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies. London: Routledge, 1995.
16.
Mouzelis, N. (2008) Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing Bridging the Divide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Other Information Sources
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Social Semiotics, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication Research, European Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, New Media & Society.