UCL - Social and cultural basis of the European Integration

[EUSL2505]

[22.5h] 4 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

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

Aims

The aim of this course is to introduce the student to a socio-anthropological approach to the integration of Europe, to discover its principles, and to become familiar with some of its main conceptual tools.

Main themes

The course analyses the main socio-anthropological topics involved in the construction of the European Community in the broad sense, e.g., interdependence, identity, and collective mobilisation. It makes use of both micro- and macro-sociological analysis.

Content and teaching methods

- Introduction: Principles of a socio-anthropological approach to the construction of Europe.
- Micro-socioanthropological analysis of a European institution. Application: actual practices and relations of the institution of "commissioner".
- Europe as a system of interdependence. The notion of configuration (Elias) applied to Europe. Europe and the States.
- The issue of European identity.
- Power relationships in Europe. Theories about power and analysis of social networks applied to Europe.
- Collective action and mobilisation in Europe: transnational social networks, international non-governmental organisations, and transnational networks of activists. Specificity of collective action in Europe.
- Macro-sociological approach to Europe. Europe as a modern, reflexive society. Applications to the problem of environmental risk.

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

Period: 1st semester.
Periodicity: yearly.
Language: French.
Prerequisite: none.
Evaluation: written or oral examination.
Support: to be determined by the professor in charge.
References: to be determined by the professor in charge.