Society & Politics

Pre-requisites: Familiarity with sociological theory, an interest in the political life and issues in Serbia and society's role in politics.

Course objectives: An understanding of the concept of the culture of memory and its effects in society in Serbia. Familiarity with consequences of social disruption and breaking away on political polarization. To gain an understanding of the symbolic hegemony of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and its challenges.

Course description: The culture of memory and electoral body in Serbia; theories on the break-up of Yugoslavia. Social effects on party separation in Serbia. Dominating and alternate memory of society in post-Yugoslavian Serbia. Serbo-centric symbolic hegemony hypothesis about the break-up of Yugoslavia. Leftist critique of symbolic hegemony and the break-up.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to differentiate and recognize dominant and alternative collective memory in Serbia and to explain in what ways social disturbances and separations can effect political groups and grouping. Students will know of the symbolic hegemony in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and its challenges.

Literature/Reading:

• Todor Kuljić (2004). Tito u novom srpskom poretku sećanja. Zgodovinski časopis 2004,1-2.
• Todor Kuljić (2005). Monumentalizacija srpske monarhije. Časopis za suvremenu povijest, 2005, 2.
• Jovo Bakić (2008). Levičarsko-anarhistička kritika američkog imperijalizma i tumačenje nestanka Jugoslavije. Zbornik Instituta za sociološka istraživanja Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu.
• Antonić, Slobodan (2005): “Stranačko poistovećenje: slučaj Srbije” , Sociološki pregled, god. XXXIX, br. 2, str. 123-151.
• Antonić, Slobodan (2006): «Stranačke naklonosti u Srbiji posle 2000», u: Društvo u previranju: sociološke studije nekih aspekata društvene transformacije u Srbiji, str. 219-259, ur. Smiljka Tomanović, B
• Antonić, Slobodan (2005): “Izborna kolebljivost u Srbiji: poređenje i objašnjenje”, Sociološki pregled, god. XXXIX, br. 3, str. 229-250.