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| SOCI0589-1 | Sociological and anthropological approaches to everyday life
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Marc Poncelet |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | This course was designed in the year 2000 to provide instruction regarding the sociology of consumption. It is now in the process of being redesigned and expanded.
The first part of the course offers a comparative examination of sociological methods and approaches on one hand, and anthropological methods and approaches on the other.
A second part of the course has as its objective an epistemological, critical and historical reflection concerning the origin of the theme of everyday life and its constitution as a scientific object in anthropology and sociology.
The third part retains the guiding thread of consumption, while multiplying approaches and examples. Through consumption - its objects, practices, rites, locales and meanings - the course questions the foundations of contemporary modes of consumption as regards their internal inequalities, their cultural and social meanings, and their planetary effects.
The course systematically has recourse to inter-cultural comparisons, and more precisely to North-South comparisons in attempting to contribute to an elucidation of the global stakes of mass consumption. |
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| Course objective : | To attempt to qualify sociological and anthropological approaches to contemporary worlds.
To adopt the constructivist approach to the construction of the notion of daily life as a scientific object.
To provide the basic instruments of sociological and anthropological reading of social signs and cultural values created by consumption.
To highlight:
- the singularity and relativity of modes and standards of consumption as distinctive signs of industrial and post-industrial societies
- the ability of sociological and anthropological approaches to create fundamental cultural and social rationalities linked to consumption
- the challenges of, players in and limits to the globalisation of mass consumption |
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| Prerequisites : | An introductory course in sociology or anthropology. |
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| Workshops : | Revision sessions will be organised upon student request by the assistant and the student monitor.
Exercises in the introduction of sociological and anthropological observation are led by the assistant and the student monitor. |
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| Organization : | Second semester course
Direct teaching, oral course, presentations, lectures from invited speakers.
Individual introductory exercise on the socio-anthropological approach. |
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| Written notes : | Reading portfolio to be purchased at the start of the course.
Reading of one publication is compulsory and will be the subject of a printed report of a maximum of five pages (single-spaced). The list of available publications for this individual project will be distributed with the first part of the reading portfolio. The individual reading paper should be submitted to the assistant or lecturer at the penultimate class. |
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| Assessment : | A written examination is organised during the first session.
An oral exam will take place in the second session.
Assessment of the written work and the observation exercise will count towards a third of the final assessment grade. |
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| Contacts : | Lecturer: M. PONCELET
Marc.Poncelet@ulg.ac.be
Secretary's office: M. SALERNO -
Phone : 04/366.31.61
Marina.Salerno@ULg.ac.be
Assistant : B. SCHOONBROODT
Phone : +32 4 3664694
Bschoonbroodt@ulg.ac.be |
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