The achievements covered by the course are:
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
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.
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.