PSYB12-250 Special Courses Bordering Sciences Teachers:

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PSYB12-250 Special Courses Bordering Sciences

Teachers:

Simonovits Borbála <simonovits.borbala@ppk.elte.hu Fábri György <fabri.gyorgy@ppk.elte.hu>

Judit Osvat <juditosvat@gmail.com>

Richard Papp <pappriki@gmail.com>

Aim of the course

The main aim of the course is to form the scientific attitude and approach of students via co-sciences of psychology (cultural anthropology, economics, sociology and communication and media science). The classes are held by famous experts of the given science who will equally share the most important basic knowledge of their specialization and connect these knowledges to psychological competencies.

Learning outcome, competences knowledge:

Knowledge of basic concepts, knowledges, theories and specific methods of cultural anthropology, sociology, economics and communication and media science

attitude:

Increased social scientific sensibility, susceptible approach, flexible thinking

skills:

Ability to connect the knowledge and approach of psychology to basic knowledge of co-sciences of psychology

Content of the course Topics of the course

Cultural anthropology: the course reviews the history of the discipline from the beginning to contemporary trends. The students are introduced into methodology and approach of the science. After the reviewing the schools of “armchair” anthropology the students become acquainted with both of developing trends of anthropology and field methods. In the second part of the course the anthropologies studying special aspects of cultures and societies will be reviewed.

Sociology: first the classic theories and approaches of sociology and conceptual frames of social integration are will be introduced, then the process of interpretation of reality will be discussed from different approaches (phenomenology, sociology of knowledge, constructivism). Next, the central aspects of interpersonal

interactions will be analysed: rationality of communication, relationship of identity construction and role play, and forms of acknowledgement. Then the functional approach of society will be discussed. Last topic is the newest changes of society.

Economics: the students will be introduced into basic concepts of economics. Next, the opportunities of psychology to add complimentary knowledge and methods to economics are discussed (economic psychology). Why a cognitive psychologist (Daniel Kahneman) received Nobel prize in economics in 2002?

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Communication and media science: the main aim of the course to familiarize students with aspects of communication as collective way of living and basic questions of communication theories. All of these are worked up in systematic approach of philosophical epistemology, theory of society and history. The students will be introduced also into scientific terms and theories of world of digital communication.

Learning activities, learning methods Lectures, reading literature

Evaluation of outcomes

Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation: requirements

Written exam based on lectures and literature

Final mark is counted as mean of four marks (25-25%) mode of evaluation: mark (1-5)

criteria of evaluation:

Primary standpoint that students would be able to apply properly the knowledges of all of sciences they learned in the course

Weekly schedule

Date Teacher

1 09.13 Simonovits Sociology

4 10.11 Osvát Economy

7 11.08 Papp Antropology

10 11.29 Fábri Communication

11 12.06 Fábri Communication

12 12.13. Fábri Communication

Reading list See separately below

Sociology

Aim of the course

Sociology: The aim of this course is to present current topics sociologists interested in. Amongst others, we will discuss the following questions: Why do people migrate? What is global division of labour? Is it rather beneficial or harmful? What are the main criteria of platform (-or sharing economy)? Working in the framework of this new business model is “better” or “worse” for the workers, compared to the

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classical business models? Why do people help each other? And why do not? How do we define discrimination? What is racial profiling?

Reading list

Compulsory readings

Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas and Mark J. Miller (2012): The Age of Migration (4^th or 5^th edition).

Palgrave-Macmillan. Selected chapters: 1. Introduction and chapter 3: How Migration Transforms Societies. see also its website: http://www.age-of-migration.com/ and relevant case studies:

http://www.age-of-migration.com/resources/casestudies.html

Sundararajan, A. (2016). The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based.

Capitalism. MIT Press. Introduction and Chapter 1. The Sharing Economy, Market Economies, and Gift Economies.

Bertrand, M. and Mullainathan, S. (2003): Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. NBER Working Paper Series.

www.nber.org/papers/w9873

Gneezy, U., List, J., Price, M. K. (2012): Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate:

Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments. NBER Working Paper No. 17855 Issued in February 2012. http://www.nber.org/papers/w17855

Massey, D. S. and Lundy, G. (2001): Use of Black English and racial discrimination in urban housing markets. New Methods and Findings. Urban Affairs Review, 36, 4 (March), 452–469.

Further literature will be recommended during the course.

Behavioural Economy

Lecturer: Judit OSVAT Aim of the course

Learners will be introduced to basic concepts of behavioural economy a.k.a economic

psychology. Students get acquainted with the basic concepts of economics and how psychology can add something to it within this framework. Why did a cognitive psychologist (Daniel Kahneman) receive a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002?

Classes – Main topics:

1 How do we make decisions? Introduction – foundations, values, preferences and choices 2 How do we play games? The known unknowns – risk, uncertainty, probability

3 Why a cognitive psychologist received a Nobel Prize in economics? Vision, prospect, nudge – and the ethics of behavioural economics

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List of mandatory literature:

1. Barberis, N. (2018) Richard Thaler and the Rise of Behavioral Economics, Yale University

2. Heyne, P., Boettke, P. J., Prychitko, D. L. (1992/2005ed11) The Basics of Economic Thinking. Prentice Hall, ISBN-10: 0131543695 (available read in ELTE Library) 3. Kahneman, D., Tversky, A. (1979) Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under

Risk, Econometrica 47 (1979): 263–291., DOI: 10.2307/1914185,

4. Thaler, R. H. (2009) Nudge, Penguin Books; Revised & Expanded edition, ISBN-10:

9780143115267

5. Tversky, A., Kahneman, D. (1992) Advances in prospect theory. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 5, 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00122574

Further literature will be recommended during the course.

Learning activities, learning methods:

Workshop

Cultural Anthropology

Teacher: Richárd Papp

Aim of the course

Cultural anthropologists interpret their micro focusing research in a holistic way with comprehensive analyses of the historical and sociological contexts of their field.

With this in mind, the students get to know in detail theories, approaches, main interests, research topics and results of anthropology from the perspective of the human societies and cultures. We analyse numerous case studies, communities, examples of social and cultural phenomena and practise with help particular research results, documentaries as well as performances, movies, novels and different visual or written sources.

The goal of the course is to give relevant knowledge and interpretation skills to the students about the common universal human characteristics and values in their diverse and complex cultural manifestations.

The critical anthropological thinking helps the students to understand the differences and difficulties of social interactions, cultural and inter-cultural communication and their

significances in a sensitive and interpretative way. As a result, the students will be able to apply their social and cultural anthropological knowledge and skills in their future studies.

Schedule

2019.11.08. Characteristics of Culture from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology 2019.11.15. Culture, Personality, Identity and Ethnicity

2019.11.22. Anthropology of Religion, Myth and Art

Readings:

Compulsory

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Eller, Jack David: Cultural Anthropology. Global Forces, Local Lives. 2016. London-New York, Routledge

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland: Small Places, Large Issues. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. 2010. London-New York, Pluto Press

Recommended

Haviland, William A. 1990. Cultural Anthropology. 1990.University of Vermont

Haviland,William A. – Prins, Harold – Walrath, Dana – McBride, Bunny: The Essence of Anthropology. 2013.Wadsworth, Cengage

Mead, Margaret. Male and Female. 2001. New York. Harper Collins Publishers. Perennial

Geertz, Clifford: The Interpretation of Cultures. 1973. New York, Basic Books

Theory of Communication and Media Studies

Teacher: Fábri György <fabri.gyorgy@ppk.elte.hu>

Topics of the Communication Course

1. Philosophy, Sociology and General Theory of Communication and Media (Lecture)

2. Communication of Academia: University Rankings and Science Communication; Media Image of the Psychology: the „Therapy” series of different (Practice)

3. Digital Communication, Social Media, Freedom of Speech, Fake News, Hate Speech, Political Correctness (Lecture and Practice)

Learning activities, learning methods:

Lectures, reading literature, using of social media

Reading list

Andersen , Kurt: How America Lost Its Mind? The Atlantic, September 2017 Issue Bloom, Allan: Closing of the American Mind

Griffin, Em: A First Look at Communication Theory (8^th Edition , 2011) Division One. Overview p 2-51

Rosengren, Karl Erik: Communication. An Introduction London, Sage Publication 2000. Part Three, chapter 6: Societal Communication, Mass Communication p 138-169