Code: | PJD09 | Acronym: | CSD |
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Classification | Keyword |
CNAEF | Psychology |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Psychology |
Course/CS Responsible: | Master Degree in Psychology |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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MPSIC | 7 | Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2021 | 1 | - | 6 | 54 | 162 |
MTP | 5 | Official Curricular Structure | 1 | - | 6 | 54 | 162 |
-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.
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.
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).
Expositional and grupal discussions on texts.
designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 50,00 |
Trabalho de campo | 50,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
designation | Time (hours) |
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Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico | 30,00 |
Estudo autónomo | 78,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 54,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
Formula Evaluation: 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 two works made in group. The first contributes with 50% and the second with 50% (10%+40%).
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.