Sociology of the Territory

Code:

MSOCI025

Acronym:

SOCTER

Instance: 2017/2018 - 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	19	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: medium-sized cities, rurbanization and peripheries.
6. Local Identities and cosmopolitan spaces. From ruralities to etnolandscapes. 

Mandatory literature

Carmo, Renato Miguel; Sociologia dos territórios. Teorias, Estruturas e Deambulações, Mundos Sociais, 2014. ISBN: 978-989-8536-33-4
Choay, Françoise; O^urbanismo. ISBN: 85-273-0163-6
Ferreira, Álvaro et al. (org. ; Metropolização do espaço Gestão territorial e relações urbano-rurais, Rio de Janeiro, Editora Consequência, 2013
King, Anthony (Ed) ; Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis, New York University Press, 1996
Pinto, José Madureira e Queirós, João (Orgs.); .); Ir e voltar: Sociologia de uma colectividade local do noroeste português (1977-2007), Edições Afrontamento, 2010
Rémy, Jean; Voyé, Liliane ; Cidade: Rumo a uma Nova Definição?, Porto, Afrontamento, 1994
Sassen, Saskia; The Global City: London, Tokyo, New York, Princeton University Press, 1991
Soja, E.; Postmetropolis: Critical Studies Of Cities And Regions, Oxford: Backwell, 2000
Fortuna, Carlos (org.) ; Cidade, Cultura e Globalização, Lisboa, Celta, 1997
Baptista Luís António Vicente; Mito rural, ruralidade, campos e cidades

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
Fortuna, Carlos; Leite, Rogério Proença (orgs; Plural de cidade: novos léxicos urbanos, Edições Almedina, 2009
Domingues, Álvaro; Vida no campo. ISBN: 978-989-8217-19-6
Domingues, Álvaro; A^rua da estrada. ISBN: 978-989-8217-06-6

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

Exam: 50%

Essay: 35%

Presence and participation in classroom: 15%

Calculation formula of final grade

Criteria weighting of each element on the final evaluation of the discipline: . written examination and, if necessary, oral examination: 50% . thematic report: 35%; . attendance at sessions (theoretical and practical sessions; tutorial orientation) and work developed in the tutorial orientation sessions: 15%.

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 the Faculty Rules of Evaluation. That is, the student will make the grade improvement by performing a final exam.

Observations

Students who did not obtain a minimum of 10 marks in each of the evaluation components should go to appeal, repeating the component(s) in which the mark was negative.