Sociologie [ LSOC2020 ]

5.0 crédits ECTS 30.0 h 2q

Teacher(s)

Verhoeven Marie ;

Language

French

Place
of the course

Louvain-la-Neuve

Main themes

Specific objectives

Introduce to the historical foundations of the notion of culture and of the construction of this notion as a scientific concept.
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
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 ".

Aims

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

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

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?

Faculty or entity
in charge

> PSAD

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
	Sigle	Crédits	Prérequis	Acquis d'apprentissage
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General	ROM2M	5	-
Master [60] in Philosophy	FILO2M1	5	-
Master [120] in Anthropology	ANTR2M	5	-
Master [120] in Sociology	SOC2M	5	-
Master [120] in Population and Development Studies	SPED2M	5	-
Master [60] in Sociology and Anthropology	SOCA2M1	5	-
Master [120] in Philosophy	FILO2M	5	-
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Letters : French as a Second Language	FLE2M	5	-
Master [120] in Sciences of Religions	SREL2M	5	-

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