Socio-anthropology of Culture

Code:

E601

Acronym:

SC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2008/2009 - 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
LCED	59	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This curricular unit focus on the impact of globalization on the existinting and on the emerging forms of sociability at local, national and global level. It intends to analyse the conceptual and political reconfigurations of individuals and groups as citizens and actors of social change. The curricular unit assumes that the management of social change as 'politics of difference', as citizenship, reflexivity and the assumption of indivual and group differences are increasingly linked together.


Objectives:

•To identify the impacts of globalization on the present and emerging sociabilities.
•To contribute to professional and political reflexivity of those o design projects for ‘others’ ( defined by ethnicity, class, gender, life-style, etc.)
• To identify individual ans group ‘differences as subjectos of their own social and individual action.

Competences:

- Identification of the sociological and epistemological status of those who are ‘the object’ of project design in educational contexts.
- Identification of the models of relationship with the difference that they presuppose in policies and projects.

Learning outcomes:

- Translation of the implications of the status allocated to the actors involved for social work contexts .
- Translation of the implications of the models of relationship with the difference for professionals' reflexivity in the context of intervention projects.

Program

1. ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ – The relationship models to deal with the differences.
2. Culture as social practice.
3. The identity building in an era of transition: the role of education.
4. Structure and culture: The cultural mind, the national culture and hybridism
5. Development and Culture: the role of education.

Mandatory literature

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
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
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
Castells, Manuel; The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (vol II): The Power of Identity, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997
Rowland Robert; Antropologia, história e diferença

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Presentations
- Team work
- Debates
- Tutorial contact

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	54,00
debate	Participação presencial	20,00
Text analysis	Teste	5,00
Exam	Exame	2,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The students must attend at least 75% of the session, and in the final exam to achieve at least 10 (in a 0-20 scale) to pass the curricular unit.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark corresponds to the exam's mark, expressed in a 0 to 20 scale, being necessary to achieve at least 10 to pass the curricular unit.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The students legally authorised to not attending the sessions will deliver, besides the final exam, must deliver two reports on themes agreed upon with the teacher.

Classification improvement

The students wishing to improve their evaluation can use the legally fixed exame for that purpose.