Sociologie [ LSOC2020 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
2q
| Teacher(s) |
Verhoeven Marie ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
Specific objectives
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Introduce to the historical foundations of the notion of culture and of the construction of this notion as a scientific concept.
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Familiarise to the main theoretical streams in sociology, offering definitions of culture as well as of the rela-tion between the cultural, economic and political spheres
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Analyse the intercultural social relations in the context of (cultural) globalisation, from a global perspective and from the point of view of social relations underlying the " intercultural encounter ".
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| Aims |
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| Content |
Part one : Historic foundations
Introduce to the socio-historical genesis of the notion of " culture " (historical and ideological context of the 19th century, influence of North-American anthropology') and of the debate between " universal " and " rela-tive " conceptions of culture.
Part two : Theoretical foundations
- Presentation of the most influent theoretical streams in sociology, offering a definition of culture and of the relation between cultural, economic and politic spheres [see for instance: critical approaches (Marx, Lu-caks') ; functional approach; comprehensive approach (Weber) ; civilisation approach (Elias) ; contempo-rary constructionist approaches]
- The articulation of the cultural, economic and politic spheres : theoretical approaches
Part three : globalisation and intercultural social relations
Chapter 1 : Macrosociological perspectives: The articulation between cultural, economic and political spheres in the con-text of globalisation
- The articulation of cultural, economic and political spheres : The Nation-State, democracy and industrial society (Gellner, Bell') ; move towards post-industrial society (Bell, Touraine,')
- (Cultural) globalisation: symbolic relations between cultures, role of the media (Appadurai, Saïd)'
Chapter 2. " Micro " perspectives: construction of cultural dispositions in a plural context and analysis of interculturality (from " intercultural encounter " to social relations).
- Sociology of the contemporary individual and Sociology of cultural dispositions' construction: reminder of the foundations (dynamic between social relation, meaning relation and social position; habitus theory and the acquisition of cultural dispositions ; contemporary evolutions (Bourdieu / Lahire debate, homogeneous habitus or plural repertoires?) ; new forms of cultural inequalities
- Contemporary approaches to interculturality and the intercultural encounter
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| Other information |
Prerequiste : The course will combine theoretical sessions of knowledge transmission by the teacher, and sessions of presentation/discussion of examples from research in social sciences (so-ciology and anthropology).
Evaluation : Oral exam : discussion on the subject of the course
Individual paper on personal practice
Material support :
Written material (texts) on the presented methods
Notes or transparents from the teacher, or syllabus? Book?
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Philosophy
> Teacher Training Certificate (upper secondary education) - Philosophy
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [120] in Performing Arts
> Master [120] in Sciences of Religions
> Master [60] in Sociology and Anthropology
> Master [120] in Population and Development Studies
> Master [120] in Sociology
> Master [60] in Philosophy
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> PSAD
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