Socio-anthropology of Culture

Code:

E601

Acronym:

SC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2007/2008 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCE	3	Plano de transição	3	-	3	-
LCED	50	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

-To identify the impact of globalization at the level of the existing sociabilities and the new ones.
-To contribute to the professional reflexibility and policy of those who conceive projects for “others” (defined by ethnic group, class, gender, lifestyle, etc.);
-To identify individual and group “differences” as subjects of their own social and individual action.

Competences

-To identify, in educational contexts, the sociological and epistemological statute towards the targets the projects are conceived.
-To identify in the presented policies and projects the models of relation with difference that they imply and convey.

Program

This unit is based in the impact f globalization in the existing forms of sociability and those that, within that context, are emerging at a local, national and global level, and in the conceptual and political reconfigurations of individuals and groups as citizens and subjects/actors of social change.
The unit configures the problematics of management processes of social change as “policies of difference”, that is, in the way that, presently, citizenship, reflexibility and individual and group differences are being politically reorganized.

Program contents:

1.“We” and “they” – Models of Relation with differences
2.Culture as social practise
3.Process of construction of identities in a time of transition: the role of education
4.Structure and culture: the cultural mind, the national culture and the hybridism and “mestiçagem” (crossing of racings)
5.Development and Culture: the role of education

Mandatory literature

Castells, Manuel; The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (vol II): The Power of Identity, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997
Mohanty, S.P.; "Us and Them: On the Philosophical Bases of Political Criticism" Yale Journal of Rorty, Richard (2000) “Sobre o Etnocentrismo: Uma Resposta a Clifford Geertz” , Educação, Sociedade & Culturas , 1989
Rowland Robert; Antropologia, história e diferença
Somers, Margaret R., and Gibson, Gloria D.; Reclaiming the Epistemological "Other": Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity», in Craig Calhoun (ed.), Social Theory and the Politics of Identity., Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1996
Stoer , Stephen R. e Magalhães, António M.; ‘A Diferença Somos Nòs’: a Gestão da Mudança Social e as Políticas Educativas e Sociais., Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2005

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Expositive
- Group work
- Discussion in small and big group
- Tutorial guidance
- Assessment

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	26,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Assessment only with final exam


This unit’s assessment will assume the form of a synthesis with the following characteristics:
-Accomplishment time: 3 hours;
-Scope: the themes will respect the treated issues;
-Accomplishment conditions: individual work with consultation

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Exam.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not previewed.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Erasmus students.

Classification improvement

2nd period of exams.