Dimensões e Modos de Expressão das Desigualdades (not translated)
Code
722081044
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Understanding the dimensions of social problems and of the policies pursued to address them;
2. Understanding the modal lines of public policies that can be associated with problems, and particularly those who have a direct influence on social policies aimed at dealing with the problems;
3. Knowledge of policy priorities, devices, procedures, actors, logics of intervention and their systems of legitimacy, as well as the extent of policies and the possible modes of appropriation;
4. Understanding the information in a historical and comparative perspective;
5. Ability to analyze specific dimensions of the inequalities and of management actions related to them;
6. Ability to communicate clearly about the relevant knowledge of the subject.
Prerequisites
N.A.
Subject matter
The seminar is structured in modules that cover specific dimensions of inequality, and can be adapted to the students´ projects. Program type:
Module A: Health care system, relationship with the body and social inequalities,
Module B: Public policy, education and social inequalities
Module C: Social inequalities associated with individual characteristics
Module D: Ethnicity, difference and social inequalities
Module E: Space and social inequalities
Bibliography
Marger, Martin, 2013, Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes , Mc Graw-Hill, 13th edition
Carmo, Renato do, 2012, Desigualdades sociais 2010: estudos e indicadores, Ed. Mundos Sociais, 240 pp
Neckerman, M. Kathryn (ed), 2004, Social Inequalities, Russell Sage Foundation, New York
McMullin, Judite, 2009, Understanding Social Inequality: Intersections of Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Canada, Oxford University Press ,395 pp
Marchall, Gordon, 1997, Repositioning class: social inequality in industrial societies, Sage Publications, 236 pp
Teaching method
Interactive methodology combining a moment of question formultation that tends to enhance the possible experience of students, and another moment of systematization in order to integrate adequately the contents and regulating the students´ research processes.
Evaluation method
The assessment is based on contributions from students in class and in their subsequent formalization, a written assignment. It is expected that students integrate training contents in their thesis work. In addition, as far as transversal contents are concerned, students are expected to fill the thematic dossiers intended for the work of the whole group.