Sociology of culture

The programme considers the trends in the development of contemporary societies, where new connections and fusions between social spheres are taking place that make it impossible to understand culture without understanding these processes; at the same time, the sociology of contemporary societies requires the application of analytical procedures developed for the analysis of cultural practices in the narrower sense of the term.
The study is designed to build initially on broad basic sociological and broader social-scientific and humanities knowledge, which is developed in the upper years into specialised and specific sociological fields. The specificities of these theoretical fields provide the basis for the study of the formational processes of collective identities, national belonging and the cultural cleavage of society between tradition and contemporary challenges. They enable the student to identify and understand the cultural and identity policies of a national community and to confront local specificities in the organisation of collective cultural life with the broader contexts of integration and globalisation processes; these lead to a convergence of cultures and a new appreciation of intercultural contacts.
The programme's orientation gives it an important mission in educating people who can make an assertive and independent contribution to the development of the country's intercultural dialogue and its visions of global civilisational cooperation.