UCL - Sociology of work

[TRAV2200]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

- To focus on the analytical programmes and proposals that make up the cor-pus of the sociology of work and employment.
- To make a methodological comparison between the various (monographic, sectoral, typological and societal) approaches to empirical research that constitute this corpus.
- To acquire a heuristic understanding of forms of employment at the level of Belgian society.

Main themes

- The genesis and pathway of the sociology of work (abandonment of the de-terminist paradigm, development of the subject-based matrix, and slippage from an issue centred on work situation to one of employment).
- Transformations of the organisation of production (the division of labour at the heart of the socio-technical approach, the crisis of Taylorism, and new forms of work organisation).
- The enterprise and its logics of action.
- A societal analysis of kinds of employment and of skill; the sociology of unemployment.
- Identities in the workplace, and forms of insertion.
- Departures from industrial society.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

So as to privilege the work of group and the reflexion on the topical questions, the course proposes a specific methodology: regrouping of the lectures over the first two weeks (4 x 4 hours meetings); proposal of sets of themes families for the realization of work; organization of 3 meetings of presentation of the state of progress of the work during the four-monthly period
This course forms part of a study programme that takes place in the evenings and on Saturday mornings.