Integration, Exclusion and Social Inequality
Code
722081065
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Provide students with structuring elements and guide them towards the analysis of situations that enable them to:
a) Analyze the socio-historical conjunctures given the way societies are built on the basis of models of integration, and the way they tend to equip themselves with devices that assure their social cohesion;
b) Using different paradigms that sociology produces in order to enable the understanding and interpretation of the meaning and results of these models;
c) Recognize, through the conjuncture and models of analysis, the procedures, conditions and levels of integration and forms of inequlity and social exclusion that are produced;
d) Acquire tools to understand, in these junctures, the guidelines and modalities of public policy and particularly social policies
e) Be able to define and conduct a research project and to manage and organize activities on the subjects of the seminar.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
a) Presentation and critique of the main development indicators and inter-societary and intra-social analysis of inequalities, with particular emphasis on the position and evolution of the most significant geopolitical blocks in the construction of successive social and economic conjunctures;
b) Periodization of the construction of societies in modernity, considering especially how the issue of integration and social inequalities was addressed.
c) The participation of social scientists and of interpretation models in this construction. Local or global, sectoral or structural, medium or long-term interpretations. The methodology of comparative analysis
d) The guidelines and procedures of collective action and by the State, more particularly designed to manage integration processes and differentiated modes of access and appropriation of social resources.
e) Analysis of specific dimensions or of particular populations depending on the topics of participants´ work.
Bibliography
Casimiro Balsa e al., 2006, Conceitos e Dimensões da pobreza e da exclusão social Uma abordagem transnacional, Colecção. Método e Teorias, Ed. Unijuí/CEOS, IIjuí, Brasil.
Robert Castel, 1995, Les Métamorphoses de la Question Sociale Une chronique du salariat, Col. Lespace du politique, Ed. Fayard, Paris.
Espin-Andersen, G. (1990) The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Cambridge: Polity
Martine Xiberras, (1993) 1996, As Teorias da Exclusão Para uma construção do Imaginário do Desvio, Col. Epistemologia e Sociedade, Ed. Piaget, Lisboa
Silva, Manuel C. F.. 2009. Classes Sociais: condição objectiva, identidade e acção colectiva. ed. 1. Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus
Teaching method
An interactive methodology that associates a time of formulation of questions that tend to enhance the experience of students and any other appropriate systematization of the integration of content and regulation of processes of research students is followed.
Evaluation method
The evaluation is based on contributions from students in class and in their subsequent formalization, in a written work. It is intended that students integrate training content in their thesis work. Additionally, with regard to cross-curricular content, the aim is that the students´ work feed thematic dossiers intended to be socialized by all.