Socio-anthropology of Culture

Code:

E601

Acronym:

SC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2010/2011 - 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	64	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Objectives:

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

-Competencies

• To identify in educational contexts the sociological and epistemological statute provided to those that are ‘the object’ of project design.
• To identify in policies and projects the models of relationship with the difference that they presuppose.

• To identify in policies and projects the models of relationship with the difference that they presuppose.

Program

1. ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ – The relationship models to deal with differences.
2. Culture as social practice.
3. Identity-building in an era of transition: the role of education.
4. Structure and culture: The cultural mind, the national culture and hybridity
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
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
Tutorial time	Participação presencial	4,00
Exame	Exame	3,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Team work	Estudo autónomo	20
Analysis of texts	Estudo autónomo	26
	Total:	46,00

Eligibility for exams

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

Calculation formula of final grade

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

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

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

Classification improvement

The students wishing to improve their evaluation can use the legally established exam for that purpose.