Sociology of Social Inequalities

lsoc2050  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Sociology of Social Inequalities
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.
5 credits
22.5 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Burnay Nathalie;
Language
French
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 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”.
Bibliography
  • Power points déposés sur Moodle + textes à lire en français et en anglais
Teaching materials
  • Power points déposés sur Moodle + textes à lire en français et en anglais
Faculty or entity
PSAD


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [60] in Sociology and Anthropology

Master [120] in Sociology