Socioeconomic Structures

Code:

MHP006

Acronym:

ESE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of History, Political and International Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in History and Heritage

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MHP	17	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	45,5	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Regarding Master’s Degree Course in History and Heritage three branches, such as Local and Regional Studies - Reconstruction Memories, Historical Archives, and Heritage Mediation, the overall aim of this course is to contextualize heritage and assessing “memory policies”. It is why is important to understand the construction of human societies, in a socioeconomic and environmental perspective: rural property, work organization, market, trade, evolution of landscapes construction (industrial, urban, maritime, and so on)

Learning outcomes and competences

The intention is that students increase a theoretical, critical and conceptual background  acquiring specific skills such as:
- The use of critical documentation, restoration of organic structures, societies, economies and institutions;
- The clarification of the role of chronology and repay him his explanatory value;
- The identification, certification, preservation, study and dissemination of innovative heritage, multiple;
- The development of research capacity, capable of feeding projects, lines and research centers.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

Nature and objectives of the discipline (“economic” and “social” - operational notions, historiographic evolution)
1. Agrarian societies and the environment - exploitation of resources - impacts and limits
1.1. The exploitation / regulation / depletion of resources: environmental conflicts and landscape changes
1.2 Ownership: diversity of resources and their protection - “res nullius and res communis”.

2. Work, occupation and social recognition
2.1. Work or occupations - an “invented” classification or the threshold of social exclusion and inclusion; the limits of quantification of a socio-professional structure; reproduction or social promotion?
2.2 Work identities and “cultures” - outlines and strategies of work representations (from corporations to companies - from work to employment).

3. Uses and representations of the market (s)
3.1 Buy and sell: products, markets, routes and prices - market economy and political economy.
3.2 Consumption and material life - of wealth and poverty
3.2 Give and believe: credit and micro-credit, goods of the soul and goods of the body - moral economy and informal economy.
3.3 Hierarchies and networks of sociability - family, life cycles, fortunes, values, consumption.

Mandatory literature

BEN-AMOS, Ilana Krausman ; The Culture of giving. Informal support and gift-exchange in Early Modern England, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008
FONTAINE, Laurence ; L’économie morale. Pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle, Paris, Gallimard, 2008
MÉDA, Dominique ; O trabalho, um valor em vias de extinção, Lisboa, Fim do Século, 1998
OSTROM, Elinor ; Governing the Commons, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990
Flandrin, Jean; Famílias : parentesco, casa e sexualidade na sociedade antiga
Dulce Freire; An^agrarian history of Portugal, 1000-2000. ISBN: 978-90-04-31153-4
Lains, Pedro e Álvaro Ferreira da Silva; História Económica de Portugal 1700-2000, ICS, 2005
Ian G. Simmons; Environmental history. ISBN: 1-55786-446-2

Comments from the literature

Specific bibliography will be provided for each topic.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Discussion of program topics taking into account individual projects. Document analysis and commentary. Documentation analysis and systematization (to be developed throughout the course, depending on the students’ projects and their relation with this subject).

keywords

Natural sciences > Environmental science > Natural resources management
Humanities > History > Economic history
Humanities > History > History of agriculture
Humanities > History > Local history
Social sciences > Geography > Historical geography
Humanities > History > Social history

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	15,00
Trabalho escrito	85,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	10,00
Estudo autónomo	112,00
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

By the presence of 75% of the sessions, which will be evaluated according to the following parameters:

- Active participation in class (data analyse and debate) - 15% 

- Research work (85%) taking into account:
- Presentation of the research plan in laboratory environment (libraries, archives).
- Written work that compiles the research laboratory with aims, hypotheses, and the results of laboratory research and findings.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

 

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Accordance with Assessment Regulation.

Observations

Not applicable