Sociology of work

Teacher(s)

de Nanteuil Matthieu; Ferreras Isabelle (coordinator);

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

- The genesis and pathway of the sociology of work (abandonment of the de-terminist paradigm, development of the subject-based matrix, and slippage from an issue centred on work situation to one of employment). - Transformations of the organisation of production (the division of labour at the heart of the socio-technical approach, the crisis of Taylorism, and new forms of work organisation). - The enterprise and its logics of action. - A societal analysis of kinds of employment and of skill; the sociology of unemployment. - Identities in the workplace, and forms of insertion. - Departures from industrial society.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- To focus on the analytical programmes and proposals that make up the cor-pus of the sociology of work and employment. - To make a methodological comparison between the various (monographic, sectoral, typological and societal) approaches to empirical research that constitute this corpus. - To acquire a heuristic understanding of forms of employment at the level of Belgian society.

Faculty or entity

TRAV