Sociological Theories
Code
722081083
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Manuel Gaspar da Silva Lisboa
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
It is intended that students acquire:
1. Knowledge and understanding of Sociologys theoretical patrimony, inviting students to understand them from problematic axes: cohesion, integration and differentiation, rationality, power and control, modern condition, identities and modes of expressing of the self; conventions, justice and recognition seeking;
2. Competence and ability to recognize the singular problematics of each axis and the theoretical proposals driving them;
3. Enabling comprehension of the (in) compatibilities and of possible syntheses between different theoretical perspectives worked from those axes;
4. Ability to apply theoretical perspectives chosen in a context of addressing sociological issues constructed from: objects; plans for organizational intervention and during the internship;
5. Exposure capability and oral and written communication around the chosen theoretical problematics and of the results from the analysis and elaborated problematization.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. About the imagined project of modernity in Western Europe;
2. Social transformations and scientific contributions for the construction and consolidation of the central interest of sociological science;
3. Modernity, moral cohesion and social differentiation: Émile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons and Pierre Bourdieu;
4. Modernity, rationalization, power and control: Max Weber, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault
5. The traditional post-modernity, the modern condition and the production of identities and ways of expressing
of the self: Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Howard Becker and Anthony Giddens;
6. The political modernity, critical societies, conventions, justice and recognition - Dewey, Herbert Mead, Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot, Axel Honnett, Hans Joas
Bibliography
BOLTANSKI, L., THÉVENOT, L. (1991, 1ª edição de 1987) De la justification. Les économies de la grandeur, Paris, Éditions Gallimard.
BOURDIEU, P. (1980) Le sens pratique, Paris, Les Éditions Minuit.
DURKHEIM, E. (1996) As Formas Elementares da Vida Religiosa, São Paulo, Livraria Martins Fontes.
ELIAS, N. (1989, 1990) O Processo Civilizacional - I II Volume Transformações do comportamento das camadas superiores seculares do ocidente, Lisboa, Publicações Dom Quixote.
FOUCAULT, M. (1996) Vigiar e Punir. História da Violência nas prisões, Petrópolis/Rio de Janeiro, Vozes.
GIDDENS, A. (1989, 1ª edição 1984) A Constituição da Sociedade, São Paulo, Livraria Martins Fontes
GOFFMAN, E. (1991, 1ª edição 1974) Les cadres de lexpérience, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit.
PARSONS, T. (1966, 1ª edição 1951) El Sistema Social, Madrid, Editorial Revista de Occidente, S.A.
SIMMEL, G. (2006) Questões fundamentais da Sociologia, Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Zahar Editores.
Teaching method
The teaching methodology is based on two principles: clarity and rigor in the theoretical exposition, linking it to questions raised by students; mobilizing their participation with the aim of presenting relevant issues for their final work. Such operations require the developing of competencies and skills of written and oral reflection. The applied methodology seeks more the questioning based on problems brought by students. The theoretical and practical classes are organized so that these aims are accomplished. The exposure of the programmatic contents is also fueled by issues worked by national or foreign research on this subject and according to the programmatic axis defined. The audience is motivated for a questioning guided by the problematic axes that are suitable for their final work. The discussion of theoretical texts is privileged: these texts are distributed
beforehand. Other materials may be used for this purpose.
Evaluation method