Socio-Cultural Approach in Teaching the History of Sociology: Etude and Essay Genres

Abstract

The article reveals the idea that in the process of teaching the history of sociology in a module-rating system the teacher should diversify the methods and techniques of teaching basing on characteristics of the contents of each module. Socio-cultural approach to teaching gives rich possibilities to implement this idea that allows applying both to the cultural heritage and to social situations and comprehension of both teacher’s and student’s personal experience. The current paper deals with the experience of using of the genre of etude and essay in the study of classical German sociology of the late XIX – early XX century in the first year of study at the School of Sociology in V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. The common methodological base for innovative searches consists of theoretical and methodological workings developed by academic and pedagogical collective of the School of Sociology.