Theories of Social Control

Code:

P722

Acronym:

TCS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social and Human Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - 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	18	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
MTP	3	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

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, globalization and the reorganization of capitalism as contexts for the redefinition of social control. Three main tendencies: growing hardness of control (punitive society, Penal State); from the State to the Market (privatization of security, technocontrols, urban control).

 

Mandatory literature

Phillippe Robert; O cidadão, o crime e o Estado, Editorial Notícias, 2002
Foucault, M. ; Surveiller et punir, Paris: Gallimard., 1975
Luís Fernandes e Tiago Neves; Controlo da marginalidade, violência estrutural e vitimações colectivas.In Carla Machado (ed.). Novas Formas de Vitimação Criminal., Psiquilíbrios, 2010
McLaughlin, E. and Muncie, J.; Criminological perspectives, Sage, 2013
Luís Fernandes; O que a droga faz à norma, EDIÇÕES HÚMUS, 2019

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	50,00
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Estudo autónomo	78,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation is based on a work group and on a final written exam. Each of those components count, respectively, 50% and 50% for the final classification and to be successful, a minimum of 8 points in each component with a mean of 10 is needed.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification, expressed in a interval between 0 and 20 points, corresponds the sum of the classification in the written exame with the classification of the work made in group. The first contributes with 50% and the second with 50%. Half of the possible classification for each of those components is necessary to pass.

Classification improvement

An improvement of classification can be required only one time, until the season for second chances of the sunsequent year after getting approval and only when the curricular unit has exam previewed. The improvement can only be done by exam and not throught the improvemnt of works.

Observations

Taking in consideration the obstacules provoked by COVID-19, the evaluation format was changed.

Two main works will be done, according to what was already established at the beginning of the course, and two complementary group tasks were added.

The two main works count for 70% (35 + 35) of the final classification and the complementary taks count for 30% (15 + 15).

Students must get at least 8 points in both components.