Portuguese Society - Social Structure and Restructuring

Code:

MSOCI018

Acronym:

SPERS

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	26	MSOCI - Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Knowledge about the genesis and structure of the main processes of social (re)production which structured Portuguese society over the last four decades.
Compared knowledge about the main specificities of the Portuguese social situation.
Identification and understanding of the various logics of social and institutional space in Portuguese territory construction.

Successful students should acquire:

A good understanding of theories on and studies about the structure and restructuring of contemporary Portuguese society.
An understanding of methods to construct sociological knowledge about the contemporary Portuguese society.
An ability to produce informed sociological reflection and analysis on the reality of contemporary Portuguese society.
An ability for oral and written communication of knowledge and of autonomous learning.

Program

1. Portuguese social structure: from dualization to complexity.
2. Demographic transformations, littoralisation, (sub) urbanization and reconfiguration of economic activities.
3. Education and inconsistencies in the educational process.
4. Class structure, social mobility and social dissimilarities
5. Transformations of rural life: investigations and relative modernizations.
6. Industrialization and its alternative forms of formulation: from small and large industrial regions to diffused industrialization.
7. Cities and the (re)production of the economic, social and cultural discontinuity.

Mandatory literature

Fitoussi, Jean-Paul e Rosanvallon, Pierre ; A Nova Era das Desigualdades, Celta, 1997
Estanque, Elísio e Mendes, José Manuel ; Classes e desigualdades sociais em Portugal, Afrontamento, 1998
Ávila, Patrícia ; A Literacia dos Adultos - Competências-Chave na Sociedade do Conhecimento, Celta, 2008
Cordeiro, Graça ; Um Lugar na Cidade, D. Quixote, 1997
Costa, António Firmino ; Sociedade de bairro, Celta, 1999
Costa, António Firmino da, João Ferreira de Almeida, Luís Capucha, Fernando Luís Machado, Isabel Nicolau e Elizabeth Reis ; Exclusão Social. Factores e Tipos de Pobreza em Portugal (2ª edição alargada), Celta, 1994
Barreto, António (org.); A situação social em Portugal (1965-1995), ICS, 1996
Kayser, Bernard ; La renaissance rurale. Sociologie des campagnes du monde occidental, Colin, 1990
Pereira, Virgílio Borges; Os vincados padrões do tecido social, Afrontamento,, 1999
Rémy, Jean; Voyé, Liliane ; Cidade: rumo a uma nova definição?, Afrontamento, 1994
Rosa, Maria João Valente; Vieira, Cláudia ; A População Portuguesa no Século XX. Análise dos Censos de 1900 a 2001, ICS, 2003
Silva, Manuel Carlos ; Resistir e adaptar-se, Afrontamento, 1999
Viegas, J. Manuel Leite e Costa, António Firmino (orgs.) ; Portugal, que modernidade?, Celta, 1998
Wall, Karin ; Famílias no Campo, , D. Quixote, 1998.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretico practical classes (TP) - exposure and analysis of program contents and thematic debate about their relevancy in the Portuguese society.
Tutorial Sessions (OT) - from various subject themes, preparing, writing and discussing a little essay made by each student.

Software

Não se aplica

keywords

Social sciences > Sociology > Macrosociology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00		2012-07-16
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2012-07-16
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	73	2012-07-16
	Total:	73,00

Eligibility for exams

Final exam;
Work developed in tutorial supervision sessions (essay);
Attendance in theoretical-practical classes and tutorial supervision sessions.
Students are required to complete all assessment components, regardless of student status.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighting of each assessment component towards the final mark for the course unit:
Final exam - 70% of the final mark;
Work developed in tutorial supervision sessions (essay)- 20% of the final mark;
Attendance in theoretical-practical classes and tutorial supervision sessions - 10% of the final mark.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students who are legally exempt from class attendance are required to contact the lecturer as soon as classes start in order to establish the corresponding assessment procedures.

Classification improvement

According to Article 12 of the Assessment Regulations in force in FLUP, students wishing to improve their mark can do so in the regular and resit exam periods and until the final assessment period (inclusively) of the academic year following the successful completion of the course unit. Students wishing to improve their mark in the year following the year the course units were successfully completed will have to follow the programs and assessment methods prevailing in the previous academic year and are required to take a written final exam.