Learning outcomes

The achievements covered by the course are:

 

  • An ability to ask relevant sociological issues, problematize social patterns that are revealed in statistics (surveys ) in the stories (interviews ) in the comments
  • An ability to understand these social regularities , ie to process with relevant sociological concepts
  • An ability to implement independently sociological reasoning from a thorough understanding of the meaning of these concepts and how to use them

Goals

The course objective is to introduce students to sociological arguments through four authors ( WEBER , P. Bourdieu , E. GOFFMAN and Z. Bauman ), in order to help students to better understand the environment where they are and therefore to act more enlightened .

This objective requires a mastery of concepts presented by these authors, the emergence of these and what they can analyze. It also requires a practical application thereof by the students to understand situations and give them meaning

Content

  • Each author ( Weber, Bourdieu, Bauman & Goffman ) is developed for 2 course sessions . These courses mainly aim to introduce students to the conceptual and methodological tools developed by these authors to ' decode ' certain social phenomena.
  • So that students appropriate these tools and are able to implement them to question and analyze a situation , a practical session (TP) closing each author . Therein , directed exercises are performed with assitante .
  • Finally, individually and independently , work is asked students about each author . This work aims to validate the student 's understanding of the concepts developed by the author and his ability to apply them to a given situation. These works must be submitted 10 days after the session of TP.

Assessment method

The mark of the exam is divided as follows : 40% for individual work presented during the semester - 60% for the written exam.

The written exam consists of three situations (from 5) which are in the form of press clippings, statistical data or observations . The student must demonstrate the ability to implement the concepts developed by one or more authors to give meaning to the situations presented.

Language of instruction

Français
Training Study programme Block Credits Mandatory
Standard 0 3
Standard 1 3