History of Thought in Social Sciences in the Contemporary World
Code: 107227 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1500086 Social and Cultural Anthropology | FB | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- María Esther Fernández Mostaza
- Email:
- mariaesther.fernandez@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
This subject aims to introduce anthropology students to the sociological perspective, working on its main characteristics and basic conceptual and theoretical tools. The basic objective is to facilitate reflection on the social condition of the human being and the understanding of social phenomena and their dynamics of permanence and change.
Learning Outcomes
- CM02 (Competence) Apply theoretical knowledge of related disciplines to the study of local and global problems, incorporating the gender perspective.
- KM02 (Knowledge) Recognise and integrate the basic concepts of related disciplines in the analysis of social phenomena.
- KM03 (Knowledge) Interpret current world events incorporating the diversity of geographical, historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives.
- SM01 (Skill) Describe social phenomena in a theoretically relevant way from related sciences, taking into account the complexity of the factors involved, their causes and effects.
- SM04 (Skill) Adequately use the basic language of related sciences in both oral and written expression.
Content
Block 1. The classics of the discipline
The great European classics: Marx, Durkheim, Weber. The main themes include social class and alienation; power and authority; labor and the division of labor; urban life and modernity.
Block 2. Social Relations and Cultural Practice
The main themes include: the presentation of the person in everyday life; cultural and social capital; and social trust in the context of globalization and transformation.
Block 3. Identity, inequality and discrimination
Key themes include: Identity and diversity in the context of globalization; The construction and inequality of: gender, religious diversity and new educational inequalities.
Block 4. Citizenship and belonging
Key topics include: migration and integration; memory and, especially, socialization processes.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Debates, seminars and theory | 90 | 3.6 | CM02, KM02, KM03, SM04 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Essay and visual thinking | 44 | 1.76 | CM02, KM02, KM03, SM01, SM04 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Presentations | 9 | 0.36 | CM02, KM03, SM01, SM04 |
Teaching is articulated around three types of classroom sessions:
(a) Master classes by the teacher,
(b) workshops; which have an autonomous learning part and whose results are presented in class, combined with
(c) practical exercises based on the lessons taught and the assigned readings.
The lectures are aimed at the presentation by the teacher of the central concepts and arguments of the subject following the content of the program, although not chronologically. All classes will promote student participation based on questions for debate and great attention will be paid to the implementation of visual thinking through mind maps and concept maps.
The workshops are spaces for working on the contents of the subject based on the theoretical classes and the readings assigned in advance. They are structured around three dynamics (with a specific and consensual calendar):
1. Debates around a specific reading in a "Reading Club" format;
2. Oral presentations, in group or individually, for three of the blocks of the subject; and
3. Group work that will integrate both the concept map, an oral presentation and a written document (maximum 10 pages).
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.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 40 | 1 | 0.04 | CM02, KM02, KM03, SM01, SM04 |
| Exam | 40 | 4 | 0.16 | CM02, KM02, KM03, SM01, SM04 |
| Presentations and visual thinking | 20 | 2 | 0.08 | CM02, KM02, SM01, SM04 |
The subject will be evaluated in the following way as CONTINUOUS EVALUATION:
1) Continuous participation and exhibition of a concept or text through a portfolio with students.
· The evaluation criteria will be explained in class and disseminated throughout the virtual campus.
· The evidence will be returned with comments.
· Submissions are in teams and a minimum of three throughout the course.
· 20% of the final grade.
2) Prepare an original essay on readings and practices in groups.
· It will be based on a list of questions provided during the course.
· The evaluation criteria will be explained in class and disseminated throughout the virtual campus.
· The evidence will be returned with comments.
· The work is necessarily in groups.
· 40% of the final grade.
3) Written exams. There are two written tests that are taken in the middle and end of the course, following the Faculty's exam calendar:
· Individual and non-rote test.
· 20% of the final grade, at mid-term.
· 20% of the grade at the end of the course.
There is no single assessment.
Bibliography
Bauman, Z. (2006). Modernidad y Holocausto (3ª. Ed.). Madrid. Sequitur. (seleccions).
Berger, P. (1986). Invitació a la sociologia: una perspectiva humanística. Barcelona. Herder.
Bourdieu, P i Wacquant L. J. (1994). Per a una sociologia reflexiva. (seleccions)
Cardús, S. (1999). La mirada del sociòleg: què és, què fa, què diu la sociologia. Barcelona. Proa.
Dennis, Kingsley L. (2022), Asalto a la realidad, Barcelona, Blume.
Gracia, Carla (2022), Amb ulls de dona, Barcelona, Univers.
Marx, K i Engels, F. (1997) Manifiesto comunista. Madrid. Akal. (seleccions)
Porte A et al. (2006). La asimilación segmentada sobre el terreno: la nueva segunda generación al inicio de la vida adulta. Migraciones. (19):7-58 (selecció)
Putnam R. (1995). Bowling Alone: America’s declining social capital. Journal of Democracy. 65-78 (seleccions)
Putnam, R. (2003). El declive del capital social: un estudio internacional sobre las sociedades y el sentido comunitario. Barcelona. Galaxia Gutenberg.(seleccions)
Ritzer, G. (1996). La 'McDonalización' de la Sociedad: un anàlisis de la racionalización en la vida cotidiana. Barcelona. Ariel. (seleccions)
Roy, O. (2010). La santa ignorancia: el tiempo de la religión sin cultura. Barcelona. Ediciones Península. (seleccions)
Bajo Santos, N. (2007). Conceptos y teorías sobre la inmigración. Anuario jurídico y económico (40) 817-840.
Stolcke, V. i Wolfson, L. (2000). La 'naturaleza' de la nacionalidad. Desarrollo Económico, 40 (157), 23-24.
Sorvari, Marja. (2022). Travelling (Post)Memory: Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory. 10.1007/978-3-030-95837-4_5.
Weber, M. (1994). L’ética protestant i l’espirit del capitalisme. Barcelona. Edicions 62. (seleccions)
MANUALS
Calhoun, C., Light D, Keller S (2000). Sociología. Madrid. McGraw Hill.
Giddens, A. (1993). Sociología. Madrid. Alianza Editorial.
Heller, A. (2006). Què és la “postmodernitat”? un quart de segle més tard. CCCB
Macionis, J., Plummer, K. (2011). Sociología. Madrid. Pearson.
Rithchart, R. (2020). The power of making thinking visible.US: Jossey-Bass Inc.
Rocher, G. (1973). Introducción a la sociología general. Barcleona. Herder.
Sennet, R. (2000). La corrosión del caràcter: las consecuencias personales del Trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo. Barcelona. Anagrama.
Todorov, T. (2000). Los abusos de la Memoria. Barcelona. Paidós.
Vivas, R. (2021). Visual thinking works. Barcelona. Lunwerg.
Software
It will be discussed in class at the beginning of the course.
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |