Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h + 6.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Franssen Abraham;
Language
French
Main themes
- The concepts of the actionnalist sociology of A. Touraine (historicity, class conflicts, institutional conflicts, organizational conflicts, social movements, shapes of collective action, ...)
- The solidarity and exchange relations (typology of collective action) and the explanations of collective action.
- The stages of collective action : the theory of mobilization and demobilization (explanetory factors of the transition from indifference to protest and mobilization, role of the leaders)
- The theory of the mobilization of resources (the contexts of social micro-mobilizations (MacAdam, MacCarthy, and Zald, ...
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | - to bring the students to situate and appropriate the main theories, concepts and authors of collective action's sociology, not only of french-speaking sociology (A. Touraine and the actionnalist school, G. Bajoit) but also of the anglo-saxon sociology (E. Thompson,...) - to arouse reflection about characteristics and metamorphosisses of collective action (old and new social movements), especially in the search of the analysis of shapes, conditions and stakes of the contemporary local or global mobilizations, stakes of reallocation and recognition - at the level of education to the sociological process and methods, the course will also aim the introduction of the principles and methods of the sociological analysis of the collective action phenomena (historization of social phenomena, articulation of different analytical levels, seizure of the social movements in their complexity,...), by presentation of emblematic researches. |
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”.
Faculty or entity
OPES
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Economic and Social Policy (shift schedule)
