Sociology of Social Inequalities [ LSOC2050 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
1q
| Teacher(s) |
Burnay Nathalie ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
The main themes of the course will be the following :
- Inequalities, transformation of capitalism and social policies : main political and historical issues.
- Sociological theories, social stratification and inequalities : main theoretical questions
- The state of social inequalities : synchronic and diachronic empirical approach
- Factors and processes of production and reproduction of inequalities
- Social inequalities and societies : macro-sociological approach
- Social inequalities and social relations: social classes, gender relations, ethnic relations
- Inequalities and individual trajectories
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| Aims |
The student will be trained to
- locate the question of inequalities in relation to the sociological issues of social stratification and mobility
- locate the socio-historical evolution of philosophical challenges and political responses to the question of so-cial inequalities
- analyse, at a macro, meso and micro-social level, the factors and social processes generating the unequal dis-tribution of the main capitals (economic, cultural, social) at the level of individual actors as well as of collective entities;
- acquire an empirical knowledge of the state of social inequalities at a global, national and regional level (European, Belgian and Walloon levels) and develop a critical knowledge of the main sources of (statistical or qualitative) empirical data
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| Content |
The course is based at a time on the teacher's oral presentation, on a multimedia support as well as on a guest's presentation on a thematic particular.
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| Other information |
The supports of course are double: a synthetic presentation of matter (power dawns) and a compilation of texts. These two supports are complementary and permit to surround the entièreté of matter.
The exam will consist in the writing of a personal work of about ten pages in relation with the course.
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Sociology
> Master [120] in Political Sciences: International Relations
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> PSAD
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