Theories of Social Control

Code:

P722

Acronym:

TCS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social and Human Sciences

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	12	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
MTP	4	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

-To get a general perspective on the social and historical process of the individuality development and of social control in Modernity; 
-To identify the main control devices (dispositivos de controlo) and the effects they have on the individual; 
-To recognise the sings of the contemporary crises in the effectiveness of social control strategies. 
-To develop analytical skills to interpret the institutional context as a result of the dynamic relationship between power strategies and forms of knowledge. 

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semestre, the student must be able of:

- developing a coherent and integrated description and explanation of social control in its historical dynamics;

- analysing in a critical way the diverse formats that the will to control individuals and populations have been developed as well as recognising new forms of social management;

- explaining the conditions that contribute to the present crisis of modern social control as well as understanding its recent developments.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

Emergence and expansion of social control devices. The status of the individual on Modernity: autonomy, freedom and control. Normalization and control in disciplinary society: biopower, the panoptic and social defence. Diversification and dissemination of social control devices. 
- The crises of social control devices: crime, from natural phenomenon to social construction; critics on classical social control; 
- The social control reorganisation: the new status of individuality and globalization as contexts for redefinition of social control exercise: the contemporary discussion about risk society, punitive society, Penal Estate, restorative justice… 

Mandatory literature

Basaglia, F. e Basaglia, O. (Eds.); Los crímines de la paz., Madrid: Siglo Vientiuno Editores. , 1981, [1975]
Foucault, M. ; Surveiller et punir, Paris: Gallimard., 1975
Muncie, J., McLaughin, E. e Langan, M. ; Criminological perspectives – a reader, London: Sage., 1996

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expositional and grupal discussions on texts.

keywords

Social sciences > Criminology
Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour
Social sciences > Sociology > Macrosociology
Social sciences > Anthropology
Social sciences > Sociology > Urban sociology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho de campo	30,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification corresponds the sum of the classification in the written exame with the classification of the work made in group. The first contributes with 70% and the second with 30%. Half of the possible classification for each of those components is necessary to pass.

Classification improvement

To improve the final classification, the student can ask for only one opportunity immedietly after getting the approval in the final exame. Improvements can only be done through the final exam and not through reformulations made in the work produced by the groups.