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1. Mass action - social movements:
• Types of collective activity (mass action, collective behaviour, collective action)
• Social movements according to Mario Diani
• Characteristics of a mass society conducive to the emergence of social movements
• Characteristics of social movements
• Classification of social movements
• Models of the decline of a social movement
• Concept of a political movement
• Characteristics of a political movement
2. Liberalism:
• Ways of understanding liberalism
• The branches of liberalism (political liberalism and economic liberalism)
• The values of liberalism (the individual, liberty, reason, justice, tolerance and diversity)
• Social contract theory
• Constitutionalism
• Liberal democracy and its critique
• Ideas of classical liberalism (natural law, utilitarianism, economic liberalism, social Darwinism, neo-liberalism)
• Ideas of contemporary liberalism (individualism, positive liberty, social liberalism, economic management)
3. Conservatism:
• Values of Conservatism (Tradition, Human Imperfection, Organic Society, Hierarchy and Power, Property)
• Principles of authoritarian conservatism (Joseph de Maistre)
• Principles of paternalistic conservatism (Edmund Burke)
• Single nation conservatism
• Christian Democracy and its principles
• Examples of contemporary Christian Democratic groups
• Liberal New Right (Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek)
• Conservative New Right
4. Socialism:
• The origins of socialism
• Values of socialism (community, cooperation, equality, social class, common property)
• Ways to socialism (revolutionary way and evolutionary socialism)
• Assumptions of classical Marxism
• The main assumptions of Leninism – Stalinism
• Main ideas of Maoism (politics of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution)
• The Frankfurt School
• Social Democracy
• The Third Way
5. Anarchist movements:
• The Concept and Origins of Anarchism
• William Godwin
• Pierre Joseph Proudhon
• Postulates of anarchism (anti-ethnicism, natural order, anti-clericalism, economic freedom)
• Ways to anarchism (revolution, direct action, rejection of violence)
• Types of anarchism (collectivist anarchism, individualist anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-capitalism)
6. Racist and antiracist movements
• The concept and origins of racism
• Ideas of racism (man, society, law, state)
• Anti-Semitic racism
• French racism (ideas of Joseph Arthur de Gobineau)
• German racism (concepts of Richard Wagner and Houston Steward Chamberlain, ideology of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• The politics of segregation in the USA
• The politics of apartheid and the work of Nelson Mandela
• #black lives matter and woke movements
7. The New Left and the counterculture:
• The concept and sources of the New Left
• Representatives of the New Left (Charles W. Mills, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rudi Dutschke)
• Civil rights movement
• Anti-war movement (anti-war movement)
• Free Speech Movement
• Letter to the New Left and the Port Huron Declaration
• Main assumptions of the NL (criticism of the capitalist system, attitude to religion, national minorities, family)
8. Feminism:
• First wave feminism
• Second wave feminism
• Third wave feminism
9. Pacifism
• The concept of pacifism
• Ideas of pacifism: the law of war and peace, the state, the individual
• Peace Movement
10. Environmentalism
• Development of the environmental movement
• Ideas of environmentalism (ecology, holism, sustainability, environmental ethics)
• The deep ecology movement
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