Sociology of Social Inequalities

Teacher(s)

Burnay Nathalie ;

Language

Français

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

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

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

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.

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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