POLITIČKA SOCIOLOGIJA

After passing the exam, students will be able to: • Understand the controversy and analyzes the different concepts and approaches to the modern state, to distinguish scope and limits of state from its management capacity, analyze the state as a normative framework and the field of political decision-making process and notice challenges the national welfare state is facing in the globalized framework; • Make a distinction between the various theoretical and analytical, normative and political-cultural approaches to civil society, analyze the contribution of civil society actors to the stabilization and consolidation of democracy, and also democratic deficit and limits of political and civil society organizations in post-authoritarian societies; • Analyze the dynamics of social conflicts and macro social change - crisis, wars and revolutions, and identify models and methods of effective non-violent action; • Perceive the challenges and opportunities of the globalization process but also its risks such as the risk of sustainable growth, the spread of inequality and poverty or terrorism; • Analyze the process and actors of democratization and recognize and use different criteria and indicators for "mapping and measuring" of democracy or its consolidation; • Perceive key value setting and foundations of modern political ideologies, distinguish ideologies from political party programs and be able to analyze political "family" at the European and national parliaments.