Historical Sociology












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            Form of study: full-time or combined

            Standard study period: 4 years




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            * Description of the Field of Study

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            Historical Sociology is a unique Study Programme that, in the Czech Republic, can be studi

            the Faculty of the Humanities, Charles University. This program aims to advance research a
            and pedagogical training of experts focusing on issues of long-term social processes and t
            significantly impact contemporary societies' lives. These include, in particular, the prob

            modernization and social change, globalization tendencies and impacts, integration and dis
            processes, continuity and discontinuity relationships, religious and cultural pluralism, i
            of global and local, identification of chances and risks of social development, analysis o

            situations and possibilities of overcoming them. Understanding all these issues raises the
            developing adequate theoretical and methodological approaches and specific university educ
            Programme aims to provide such special training and contribute to the advancement of resea

            the given field.

            Historical sociology is not merely a hybrid link between history and sociology. It is a di

            the assumption that its general subject is historical and space-time determines social rea
            of this assumption has consequences for the theory of this discipline and its research str
            both should be oriented on the analysis of the present and the near and more distant past.

            following this premise, historical sociology cannot be defined as a unique historical or s
            discipline but as a specific, interdisciplinary-oriented theoretical and methodological pe
            is relevant both for the area of basic research and for specialized research programs. It 

            that focuses significantly on long-term social processes and analyzes the differences and 
            of social phenomena in various historical periods. The thematic direction of the Study Pro
            illustratively brought nearer by the Historical Sociology professional journal (Karolinum,

            has been, since 2009, edited by the Department of Historical Sociology of the Faculty of H
            Charles University.
            Historical sociology is close to both a sociology discipline and historical sciences; it h

            or similar concepts, theoretical orientations, methodological approaches, and research que
            not transferable in the case of sociology or history. It is not some mechanical joining of
            but a specific research perspective and a specific Study Programme. The PhD Study Programm

            Sociology is designed to provide high-quality and demanding special training to those who 
            qualified scientific and research work – particularly of an analytical and comparative nat
            the areas that contemporary historical sociology deals with.






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            * Tuition

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            Tuition fee for the program is 700 € per year.






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            * Links and contacts
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            Vice-dean of PhD Study Programmes: Ing. Jana Jeníčková, Ph.D. [ MAIL "jana.jenickova(zavin
            Guarantor of the Study Programme:doc. PhDr. Jiří Šubrt, CSc. [ MAIL "jiri.subrt(zavinac)fh


            • Basic information for the study [ URL "FHSDSEN-37-version1-basic_information_from_2019_2
            • List of Supervisors [ URL "FHSDSEN-88.html "]
            • Forms&Documents [ URL "FHSDSEN-62.html "]

            • Dissertation Topics Proposal [ URL "FHSDSEN-63.html "]
            • Specifics of Ph.D. Studies [ URL "FHSDSEN-25.html "]
            • Application Procedures [ URL "https://phd.fhs.cuni.cz/FHSDSEN-46.html"]


            WEB OF THE DEPARTMENT [ URL "https://hiso.fhs.cuni.cz/HISOENG-1.html"]


            Application available for full-time and combined form of study here [ URL "FHSDSEN-45.html