Advanced Seminar in Sociology II
Code
73208112
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
4
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Centred in the debate about ongoing or recent research projects (in different stages: object, starting theoretical questions; methodological approaches, outputs), the ASS aims at
- introducing the students to contemporary debates in top sociological research, in consolidated or emerging thematical areas existing in the research centres integrating the consortium, through researchers involved in them;
- allowing a demanding and fruitful dialogue between researchers and students, training their curiosity, developing and updating their qualification in the discipline;
- training their capacity to elaborate questions, to debate and exchange scientific arguments;
- to promote the sense of belonging to a new community of peers, with distinct institutional and generational cultures, through the direct knowledge of work achieved by the researchers;
- to provide clues and (theoretical, methodological and empirical) references to the construction of individual thesis.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
As a reseach seminar that embraces in a common dialogue sociologists (academic researchers) and Ph students, it is structured in 2-3 thematic blocks, specifically chosen (at the beginning of each semestre, and meeting the themes of the individual thesis) within a set of thematical - either consolidated or emerging - areas but transversal and strategical for the scientific identity of the different OU of the Consortium. The following domains were already identified: Economical and Organizational Sociology; Territory, Mobility and Environment; Culture, life styles and values; education , childhood and life course; family and gender; population, health and ageeing; politics, communication and media. Each session consists in the presentation and discussion of an ongoing or recent research project.
Bibliography
A bibliografia, nacional e internacional, é seleccionada pela equipa docente no início de cada semestre, de modo a cobrir as areas tematicas seleccionadas e os diferentes investigadores que animarão o Seminário.
National and international bibliography is selected by the teaching team at the beginning of each semester, so that the chosen thematic areas and researchers are covered.
Teaching method
The Advanced Seminar in Sociology is organized in working sessions, ensured by invited researchers or experts of a certain sociological thematical area. Besides the initial presentation associated to a first part of the Seminar (preceded by the distribution of a supporting text/article, recommended bibliography), the supervision and follow up of the students debate are also foreseen. The teaching methodology serves as an instrument to train the students in the capacity of formulating meaningful questions, presenting and justifying a coherent reasoning or thought.
Evaluation method
The evaluation will take into account the following criteria:
- Quality of the student participation in the oral debate;
- Quality of a text of scientific writing, about one of the presented research projects