Challenges to Sociology and Global Development

The content of the course focuses on the key challenges of modem sociology (multiparadigm and the challenges of "methodological nationalism", quantitative and qualitative methodologies), on the one hand, and, on the other hand, open to discuss the most important issues of sociological international comparative research, globalization and global development. The work focuses on the analysis and discussion of recent publications in English-language sociological peer-reviewed journals in order to include students in the most relevant agenda of academic debates based on the latest research results. The format of the work is a colloquium, which combines discussion, lectures, practical tasks, is adequate for master's students. Teaching and learning in English is aimed to strengthen the professional language skills of students, to enrich their professional academic vocabulary in sociological terminology, to improve academic skills of writing abstracts, skills of presentation and debates.