SOCIOLOGY FOR ARCHITECTS - BMEGT43A044

The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the basic concept, methods, main topics of sociology. The sub-ject puts special emphasis on the topics that are crucial for the students’ future careers as architects.

1. Knows the concepts, key relationships and theories needed to describe the regularity of social actions;
2. know the basic theories of game theory describing interdependent social relations,
3. know the theories describing the normative embeddedness of social action,
4. know the main experimental results in the field of behavioural economics.

1. Ability to plan, organise and carry out independent learning,
2. ability to understand and use action theory, game theory, normativity,
3. typical literature and library resources on influencing behaviour,
4. be able to recognise in everyday life the typical social situations analysed by the theory of action and to put into practice what they have learned,
5. is able to use its creativity.

1. It is open to learning and absorbing new information generated by action theory;
2. collaborate with the teacher and fellow students to develop their knowledge,
3. expand their knowledge through continuous learning, open to the use of information technology tools.

1. It welcomes well-founded critical comments,
2. collaborate with fellow students in certain situations - as part of a team - to solve problems,
3. applies the methodological individualist approach of action theory to the interpretation of social phenomena.

Lectures, exercises, guided self-learning.

• Andorka Rudolf: Bevezetés a szociológiába. Budapest: Osiris, 1997.
• S. Nagy Katalin (szerk.): Szociológia. Budapest: Tipotex, 2006
• Csanádi Gábor – Csizmady Adrienne – Kocsis János Balázs – Kőszeghy Lea – Tomay Kyra: Város Tervező Társa-dalom. Budapest, Sík Kiadó, 2010.
• Giddens, Anthony: Szociológia. Osiris, 2003.
• Macionis, John J.: Sociology. 15th edition. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Pearson, 2013

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félévközi összegző értékelések

• midterm tests: 100

Retake and make-up test options are defined by the valid regulations of the University’s Code on Education and Examination.

a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségek természete és mérése, a város kritikai társadalomelméletei, a közösségi média utópiája és hazugsága, a norma- és értékvezérelt társadalmi cselekvés elméletei