Sociology of the Territory

Code:

MSOCI025

Acronym:

SOCTER

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Sociology
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Sociology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MSOCI	15	MSOCI - Study Plan	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Knowledge about the course main theoretical and methodological issues, emphasizing the new forms of organization of the space and the territory; raising awareness towards the importance of territory interdisciplinary perspective; emphasize the global nature of urban and social change, considering the phenomena of social and geographical mobility, migration, ethnicity, culture and lifestyles; knowledge of new forms of representation and traits of social rural space; initiation to operational knowledge in order the conception of research projects and professional intervention.

Learning outcomes and competences

Deepening of theories concerned with specific issues of territory sociological analysis; development of a critical and reflexive attitude in terms of territory; comprehension of the new social and cultural features of contemporary cities; ability to integrate knowledge and solve problems, particularly in metropolitan, urban and rural planning, in the context of multidisciplinary teams.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The emergence of the problematic of space and territory: historical and cultural factors 
2. Analytical dimensions of the territory and interdisciplinarity 
3. The sociological approach of the territory
4. Main transformations in territory: the limits of the dichotomy rural versus urban and the 
operacionalization of the concept of urbanization. 
5. Social structures and spatial structures: practices, representations and appropriations of the spaces. 
6. Local Identities and cosmopolitan spaces. From ruralities to etnolandscapes. 

Mandatory literature

Rémy, Jean; Voyé, Liliane ; Cidade: Rumo a uma Nova Definição?, Porto, Afrontamento, 1994
Soja, E.; Postmetropolis: Critical Studies Of Cities And Regions, Oxford: Backwell, 2000
Pinto, José Madureira e Queirós, João (Orgs.); .); Ir e voltar: Sociologia de uma colectividade local do noroeste português (1977-2007), Edições Afrontamento, 2010
King, Anthony (Ed) ; Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis, New York University Press, 1996
Silvano, Filomena; Antropologia do Espaço, Celta, 2001
Lima, Luísa; Cabral, M. Villaverde & Vala, Jorge (Coord); Atitudes sociais dos portugueses. Ambiente e desenvolvimento, ICS, 2004
Sassen, Saskia; The Global City: London, Tokyo, New York, Princeton University Press, 1991
Silva, V. e Carmo, Renato (Coords,); Mundo rural: mito ou realidade, Brasil, Annablume, 2012
Choay, Françoise; O^urbanismo. ISBN: 85-273-0163-6
Domingues, Álvaro; Vida no campo. ISBN: 978-989-8217-19-6
Fortuna, Carlos e Leite, Renato P.; Diálogos urbanos, Coimbra, Almedina, 2012
Fortuna, Carlos ; Identidades, Percursos, Paisagens Culturais, Celta, 1999
Marsden, T.; Constructing the Counryside, UCL Press, 1996

Complementary Bibliography

Reis, Manuela e Lima, Aida Valadas de ; Desenvolvimento, território e ambiente. In J. M. Leite Viegas e A. Firmino da Costa (Orgs.), Portugal, que modernidade?, Oeiras: Celta Editora, 1998
Rodrigues, Walter; Globalização e gentrificação, Sociologia. In Problemas E Práticas, 1999
Campbell, Scott e Fainstein, Susan (eds) ; Readings in Planning Theory, Blackwell, 1996
Fortuna, Carlos; Leite, Rogério Proença (orgs; Plural de cidade: novos léxicos urbanos, Edições Almedina, 2009
Jacobs, Jane; Dark Age Ahead, Random House, 2004
Warde, Alan E Savage, Mike,; Sociologia Urbana, Capitalismo e Modernidade, Oeiras, Celta Editora, 2002
Pereira, Virgílio Borges; Classes e Culturas de classe das famílias portuenses, Edições Afrontamento, 2005
Lopes, João Teixeira; A cidade e a cultura: um estudo de práticas urbanas, Edições Afrontamento e Câmara Municipal do Porto, 2000
Cabral, Manuel Villaverde; Silva, Filipe Carreira; Saraiva, Tiago (orgs.); Cidade e cidadania, ICS, 2008
Fernandes, António Teixeira; Espaço Social e suas representações. In Sociologia, 1992
Fortuna, Carlos (org.) ; Cidade, Cultura e Globalização, Lisboa, Celta, 1997

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes have a theoretical and practical component (TP) and are complemented by specific bibliography and pedagogical tools (slides, texts, ST outputs, developed summaries, conferences).
Still be held Tutorial Sessions (ST), consisting in the analysis of texts from key authors and aiming to question and deepen the course contents.

 

Software

Não se aplica

keywords

Social sciences > Sociology > Urban sociology
Social sciences > Sociology > Rural sociology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	15,00
Trabalho escrito	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	74,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	34,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

. Written exam. . Thematic written report . Presence at the lectures and work developed at tutorial sessions. . All the evaluation components are required.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation consists in a final exam about all the subjects presented during the course. The exam has a weight of 50% in the final average grade. The evaluation will be complemented with a thematic report in connection with the course program. That report has 35% of weight in the final grade. It will be also taken in account the students presence at the sessions as well as their participation at tutorial sessions what will have a weight of 15%. In order to get the final approval in the course it is necessary to get at least 10/20 both in the final exam and thematic report.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students who, according to the law are not abe to attend the classes must get in touch with the teacher at the begining of the year. Those studentswill be evaluated by an exame and a thematical report. Each of these components has 50% weight. The exam dates as well as the reports presentation will be the same applied to all the other students.

Classification improvement

The improvement in the final classification is performed in accordance with theFaculty Evaluation Rules. The improvement can only exist concernong the exam. The exam has the same weighting as in the normal period (50% of final grade). Are kept the weights of the remaining components. Will be considered for the calculation of the final mark, the marks obtained in the remaining components. It keeps the weight given to each of these components of evaluation and the conditions for approval for the course.

Observations

The time of appeal includes the completion of a written examination and, if necessary, oral and a written report theme. Each component has a weight of 50%. Is required the realization of the evaluation element for which was obtained a negative grade. The approval of the course has a condition that the scores obtained in each of the components is equal to or higher than 10. Foreigner students unable to write in Portuguese are allowed to write their exam and report in English, French or Spanish. At the beginning of the academic year will be given students a schedule of attendance. All scanned documents relevant to the discipline will be inserted in SIGARRA.