Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500257 Criminology | FB | 1 | 2 |
There are no pre-requeriments.
This subject, Social Structure, offers the student the knowledge s/he needs to understand the processes that shape social inequality in late modern societies, and, at the same time, provides very useful and valuable inputs for the analysis of several factors associated with the genesis of criminality as well as with the social contexts in which it appears.
The aim of the subject is to introduce the students to the main concepts, theories and fields of research developed by sociologists in order to study the fundamental processes of social structuration in late modern societies.
The course focuses on the analysis of basic dimensions of inequality (class, gender, and ethnicity), and also attends to the outcomes of the structuration processes under the pressure of different institutional configurations. The acquisition of these knowledges and skills will be illustrated with comparative data from Catalonia/Spain within the context of the EU, and through the elaboration and use of several statistical indicators.
1. Introduction: the sociological perspective in the analysis of social structure. Social structure and inequalities.
2. Conflict, social movements and collective action.
3. Social classes.
4. Gender and family.
5. Ethnicity and racism.
6. State, productive model, welfare regime and labor market.
7. Urban space, poverty and social exclusion.
8. Migrations.
9. Crisis, uncertainty, fear and security.
10.Society, environment and ecological crisis.
Before the beginning of the semester students will have a schedule of all the activities of the course in the virtual campus
The evaluation system is one of continuous evaluation. The evidences that will be taken into account are team work, participation in seminars and a final exam. Team work counts for 30% of the final grade, the exam for 50% and the seminars for the remaining 20%. The students will be able to recover both the continuous assessment activities and the final exam.
On Working Teams
Characteristics: the work will consist of an essay on one of the subjects included in the syllabus. The topic will be freely chosen.
Group: 4 members
Length: 4000 words
Calendar: the schedule of work deliveries will be specified at the beginning of the course. But it will consist of the definition of the topic; the search of bibliography and the preparation of the index; a preliminary partial delivery; and a final delivery.
Follow-up: during the course there will be sessions to follow up and resolve doubts about the work. These will be indicated at the beginning of the course.
On the Seminars
The seminars are reading seminars in which the compulsory bibliography is discussed. Each seminar is related to one of the points on the syllabus. A calendar of the seminars and an indication of the corresponding readings will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Assistance
Both theory and seminar classes are compulsory. A student who does not attend a minimum of 80% of the classes cannot be evaluated. Absences can only be justified for reasons of illness or other force majeure and for academic reasons previously authorized by the teaching staff.
Punctuality
Classes start on time. Late arrival is not admitted.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures. | 19.5 | 0.78 | 3, 2, 1, 7, 4 |
Seminars. Cooperative learning process (working in small groups) and mixed methodology (bi-directional). | 19.5 | 0.78 | 3, 1, 4 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Evaluation. | 5 | 0.2 | 3, 1, 6, 4 |
Student external work | 106 | 4.24 | 3, 1, 6, 4 |
The exam will include specific questions about the compulsory readings as well as on the lessons taught in class.
Only students that have done all tests and exercises and that have attended at least 80% of the lessons will be evaluated.
Students will be given a second chance of redoing every exam or exercise that they have failed.
Collective essays that do not accomplish the minimum requirements either will not be evaluated or should be remade. In this context, one must understand by “minimum requirements”: (1) papers should not have major deficiencies in its formal structure, (2) they must include the recommended bibliography.
A student who cheats or attempts it an exam will have a 0 in the subject and will lose the right to re-assessment. A student who submits a practice in which there is evidence of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments of their practice will get a 0 and receive a warning. In case of repetition of the behavior, the student will suspend the subject (0) and will lose the right to recovery.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Collective working paper on one of the several subjects proposed to the students | 30% | 0 | 0 | 3, 2, 1, 7, 4 |
Final exam on the contents of the course (compulsory readings and theoretical lectures) | 50% | 0 | 0 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 4 |
Participation in the seminars and group presentation based on one of the compulsory readings | 20% | 0 | 0 | 3, 1, 5, 7, 4 |
1. COMPULSORY READINGS
The dossier with the following compulsory readings will be available on the virtual campus:
Bauman, Zygmunt. (2009). Trabajo, consumismo y nuevos pobres. Gedisa, pp. 43-73
Bauman, Zygmunt (2007). Miedo Líquido. Paidós, pp. 9-35.
D'Angelo, Alessio (2018). Flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo, Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración 2018. CIDOB, p.30-46
Della Porta, Donatella i Diani, Mario (2011). Los movimientos sociales. CIS i Editorial Complutense, p.125-151.
Engels, Federico (1984[1845]).La situación de la clase obrera en Inglaterra. Ediciones de cultura popular, p. 54-107.
Espluga, Josep. (2001) Atur juvenil, salut i exclusió social. Revista Catalana de Sociologia, 15, p. 41-67.
Inza, Amaia (2014). La mercantilización del bienestar y el reforzamiento del Estado disciplinario. Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas, 13(1), p.49-69
Wacquant, Loïc (2001). Parias urbanos. Marginalidad en la ciudad comienzos del milenio. Manantial, p. 165-188 i 189-204.
Wacquant, Loïc (2007). La cárcel es una institución fuera de la ley. Conversación acerca de Las Cárceles de la miseria. Urvio. Revista latinoamericana de Seguridad Ciudadana 1, p.153-160
2. COMPLEMENTARY READINGS
Aguilar, Salvador. (2001). Ordre i desordre. Hacer
Berger, Peter. (1986). Invitació a la sociologia. Una perspectiva humanística. Herder.
Bourdieu, Pierre. (2000). La dominació masculina. Edicions 62.
Bourdieu, Pierre. (2006). La distinción. Taurus.
Ealham, Chris. (2005). Class, Culture & Conflict in Barcelona 1898-1937. Routledge.
Mills, Charles Wright. (1985). La imaginació sociològica. Herder.
Neveu, Erik. (2009). Sociología de los movimientos sociales. Hacer.
Sennett, Richard. (2006). La cultura del nuevo capitalismo. Anagrama.
Sennett, Richard. (2005). La corrosión del carácter. Anagrama.
Subirats, Joan. (2005). Perfils d’exclusió social urbana a Catalunya. UAB-IGOP.
3. WEBSITES
Luxembourg Income Study: http://www.lisproject.org/
The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality: http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre: http://www.unicef-irc.org/
European Foundation on Improvement of Livingandf WorkingConditions: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/qualityoflife/eurlife/index.php
Eurostat: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
OECD Family database: http://www.oecd.org/document/4/0,3343,en_2649_34819_37836996_1_1_1_1,00.html
Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya: http://www.idescat.cat/
Instituto Nacional de Estadística: http://www.ine.es
No software will be used in the course.