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SOCI0002-1

Sociology of Ideologies (Partim)

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Duration :30h Th
Credits/ECTS :
2nd "candidature" in political sciences (governance - internatinals rela)3
2nd year of a Bachelor's degree in human and social sciences3
2nd year of a Bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology3
Holder(s) :Marc Jacquemain
Course contents : The first part of the course is dedicated to the definitions of the concept of ideology and to its history in the social sciences since the social reformers, the first ideologists, until the modern theories of ideology in sociology, political science, anthropology and philosophy.

The second part of the course analyses the functions of distortion, integration and legitimization of the ideologies revealed by several authors and synthesized more particularly by P. Ricoeur.

The last part considers the theoretical analysis of the ideologies through different currents in sociology and political science by means of reference texts concerning:
- the place of the ideologies in the functionalist and phenomenological constructions,
- the connections between sociology and political science on one hand and ideologies on the other hand,
- finally the connections between the law and the ideology.
Course objective : The purpose of the course is to show the link between the social groups (families, political parties, social classes, ..) on one hand and the religious or political ideologies on the other hand. It is thus a question of showing that the ideologies as the systems of ideas, faiths and values are characterized by contents and specific functions in connection with the social groups which bear them and propagate them.

The course also aims at showing that the ideologies are at the same moment systems of conception, description, explanation and interpretation of the determined world, at least partially, culturally and socially. At this end, the course tries to put in evidence the psycho-social mechanisms of support of ideas such as the effects claimed of communication and of situation, the heuristics of judgment and the structures of knowledge (micro-theories and cognitive schematic structures).
Organization : During the first two parts of the course the lessons are ex-cathedra lessons. The third part is made of a discussion seminar about reference texts presented by the students. The course begins in January.
Written notes : Reference works
BOUDON R., L'idéologie ou l'origine des idées reçues, Paris, Fayard, 1986.
RICOEUR P., L'idéologie et l'utopie, Paris, Seuil, 1997 (pour la traduction française).
CENTRE D'ETUDE DE LA PENSEE POLITIQUE, Analyse de l'idéologie, Paris, Galilée, 1983. T. II.
Notes of R. DOUTRELEPONT are available at the CESEL: Sociology Student Association

Compulsory reading(s)
Works of Ricœur and of the Center of the political thought quoted above (partially).

Advised readings: references quoted above and:
MANHEIM K., Idéologie et Utopie, Paris, Marcel Rivière, s.d., traduit sur l'édition anglaise par P. Rollet.
FAYE J.P., Le siècle des idéologies, Paris, Armand Colin, 1996.
NISBETT R., ROSS L., Human Inference : Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Clifs, New Jersey, 1980.
Assessment : Oral examination for the two sessions
Contacts : Marc JACQUEMAIN, tél: 04/ 366 30 72 - fax: 366 29 83
e-mail : marc.jacquemain@ulg.ac.be

Teaching assistants:
Frédéric HESELMANS, tel: 04/ 366 31 50 - fax: 366 29 83
e-mail : Frederic.Heselmans@ulg.ac.be




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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