Examination topics in the discipline Cultural and religious studies

  • Typological problems with defining culture - the variety of criteria. The problem of cultural sources.
  • Adaptation as a basic mechanism of culture creation.
  • Unconsciousness as a source of culture.
  • Culture as a symbolic system. The origin and types of symbols.
  • Language and communication systems as a source of culture. Anthropolinguistics. Cognitive linguistics.
  • Non-linguistic communication systems and their role in culture.
  • Values ​​as a source of culture.
  • Intercultural dialogue and the forms of acculturation.
  • Confrontation of traditional value systems with globalisation processes.
  • Popular culture as an area for reflection for cutural studies.
  • Cyberculture.
  • Quantitative and qualitative research in social sciences.
  • "Oral history" as a method of studying the culture past.
  • The method of interview in humanities.
  • Survey methods in the study of culture.
  • Evoked and existing sources.
  • Semiotic analysis of cultural texts.
  • Discourse analysis.
  • Observation as a research method.
  • The use of the ethnographic approach in the organisation and market research.
  • Research on visual aspects of culture.
  • Ethical problems of qualitative research.
  • Research into the Internet and new media.