Social+History

'Social History' is an obligatory course for students in Communication and Media Science (BA), in International Relations (BA), in Sociology (BA), and an elective course for other students (e.g. ERASMUS exchange students) at CUB.

Read the official course syllabus here: []

=Musical scenes=
 * Gee, Officer Krupke - West Side Story, watch on YouTube: []
 * Skid Row (Downtown) - Little Shop of Horrors, watch on YouTube: []
 * With a Little Bit of Luck - My Fair Lady, watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxOMTK5bYFA
 * Good Morning Starshine - Hair, watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nmZqb2VVc48
 * You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two - Oliver!, watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HazQlWgdzg
 * Rawhide / Stand By Your Man - The Blues Brothers, watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ew1sSznDcWA
 * I Love It Out Here In The West - Abilene Town, watch on YouTube: []
 * My Rifle, My Pony, and Me / Cindy - Rio Bravo, watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v2ssbgThljU
 * You're the one that I want - Grease, watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7oKPYe53h78
 * Teenage Prayer - Cry-Baby, watch on YouTube (stop at 29:57): https://youtu.be/yVvBVu3HJsU?t=26m40s
 * Under the Boardwalk - Bruce Willis and The Temptations (1987), watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l2zk56DDjGc
 * Go To The Mirror - Tommy (1975), watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Kjzv9e2x5nI

=1) Introduction=
 * technical information
 * course requirements, remember to send your paper (ca 10 pages) latest by **December 15** by email
 * literature - books available in CUB central library and bookshop, see other libraries e.g. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ELTE University Library, CEU
 * Diamond, Jared, Collapse, How societies choose to fail or survive, London 2005 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Diamond2005.pdf
 * Harari, Yuval Noah, Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, s.l. 2014 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Harari2014.pdf
 * What is social history?
 * timescales of history
 * beginnings of societies, see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_society_01.pdf

=2-3) Demography=
 * population data
 * global population growth, regional population change
 * old type demographic crisis
 * demographic transition
 * birth and death rates in Hungary, see data 1949- (Central Statistical Office): []
 * age and sex distribution, see data on Hungary 1870-2001 (Central Statistical Office):http://www.nepszamlalas2001.hu/hun/kotetek/18/tables/load1_12.html
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_demography.pdf

=4) Population survey (exercise)=
 * See the webpage 'Social History - Surveys'

**5) Disease and health care**
 * The Thirty Years War in Germany, read Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668/69), online: http://books.google.hu/books?id=P-RLAAAAcAAJ&hl=hu&source=gbs_navlinks_s; English translation: The Adventurous Simplicissimus, London 1912, online: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33858/33858-h/33858-h.htm
 * Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, As Well Public As Private, Which Happened in London During The Last Great Visitation in 1665; Written by a Citizen Who Continued All The While In London, Never Made Public Before, London 1722, online: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376
 * watch the movie: Restoration (Változások kora, 1995)
 * Philipe Ariés, Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present, Baltimore 1974, revised ed. The Hour of Our Death, New York 1981
 * A.E. Imhof, Lost Worlds, How our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is so Hard Today? Charlottesville 1996, original title: Die verlorenen Welten, Alltagsbewältigung durch unsere Vorfahren — und weshalb wir uns heute so schwer damit tun, München 1984, also in Hungarian: Elveszített világok, Hogyan győzték le eleink a mindennapokat — és miért boldogulunk mi ezzel olyan nehezen..., Budapest 1992, some parts online at Google Books: https://books.google.hu/books?id=fvSbMRBWfzoC&lpg=PP1&hl=hu&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * children's health, see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_children.pdf
 * child mortality
 * child health nursing, breastfeeding
 * William Cadogan, An Essay upon Nursing and the Management of Children, from their Birth to Three Years of Age, 3. ed. London 1749, online: http://www.neonatology.org/classics/cadogan.html
 * William Buchan, Domestic Medicine, 11th ed. London 1790, online at Google Books: http://books.google.hu/books?id=SGYFAAAAQAAJ&dq=William+Buchan&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
 * Ignác Semmelweis (1818-1865)
 * development of health care institutions, medical science and practices
 * Michel Foucault, Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie du regard médical, Paris 1963, English translation: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, London 1973, online at Google Books: http://books.google.hu/books?id=c53DEY3-qtcC&dq=Foucault+clinic&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s

=6) Everyday life on paintings=
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_Bruegel.pdf
 * read Paul Zumthor, Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland, Stanford 1994 [1st ed. 1962], original title: La vie quotidienne en Hollande au temps de Rembrandt, Paris 1959, in Hungarian: Hollandia hétköznapjai Rembrandt korában, Budapest 1985, online at Google Books: http://books.google.hu/books?id=hFIiVZB60BQC&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
 * read also Ludmilla Jordanova, The Look of the Past, Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice, Cambridge 2012 (http://www.cambridge.org/hu/knowledge/isbn/item6698871/The%20Look%20of%20the%20Past/?site_locale=hu_HU)

=7) Court Society (Louis XIV of France)=
 * Norbert Elias, The Court Society, Dublin 2006 [1st ed. in German 1969] = http://www.norberteliasfoundation.nl/docs/pdf/02CourtSociety.pdf
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_court_society.pdf
 * watch the movie: Vatel (2000)

=8) Social discipline=
 * N. Elias, The Civilizing Process, Vol. 1-2, Oxford 1969 and 1982 [1st ed. in German 1939]
 * Philippe Ariés, Centuries of Childhood, A Social History of Family Life, New York 1962 [1st ed. in French 1960]
 * M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, New York 1977 [1st ed. in French 1975]
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_social_discipline.pdf

=9-12) Why societies fail or succeed?= > = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtBZfLZo7dc8VSsoYeVtWK8jESaS3yWIGx8ShQEfrjc/edit?usp=sharing
 * read Jared Diamond, Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York 2005, online: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Diamond2005.pdf
 * SIGN UP for a presentation of one of the 'Collapse' chapters
 * recommended reading Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New York 1999, online: []

=13) Identities=
 * Biological factors
 * Ethnicity
 * Language
 * Religion
 * Other socio-cultural factors

=14) Conclusion=
 * Social history and modern media