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| SOCI0078-1 | Advanced questions of Sociology
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑François Guillaume |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | The training provided within the framework of the Additional Sociology Questions course aims to encourage students to have "another" view on everday social reality. Students will be led to exercise their ability to observe and their critical mind. This implies a methodical mistrust regarding common sense propositions, "ready-made" ideas, a socio-psychological vulgate or ideological assertions. |
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| Course objective : | More precisely, the course aims to develop the following skills:
1. the ability to observe everyday interaction situations and to write an objective report (i.e. devoid value judgements and normative prescriptions) on the observed facts;
2. the ability to extract relevant information from existing data: statistical data, written accounts;
3. the ability to detect in everyday social practices, in objects, in methods of spatial and temporal organisation, the trace of reference cultural models or spheres, to identify the bases of these reference models and the societal stakes to which they respond;
4. the ability to deconstruct common sense propositions presented in the form of obvious facts, prenotions, convictions, etc.;
5. the ability to formulate a social problem in a sociological problem. |
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| Prerequisites : | Command of the French language.
Ability to search for information (Internet, library, etc.). |
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| Written notes : | 1. A syllabus.
2. Individual exercises carried out during classes.
3. Individual work carried out outside classes.
4. Collective summary of the exercises and individual work.
The everyday interaction situations subject to analysis will mainly be situations of family life, school life, and some other more specific contexts (beach, road, etc.).
Within the framework of the Additional Sociology Questions course, contributions from a specific author won't necessarily be envisaged: it won't be a matter of proceeding with a systematic presentation of a theoretical paradigm. It will be more a question of mobilising a series of tools which allow the necessary distance to be established to envisage social exchanges "in a different way". Reference shall be made to certain theoretical propositions of Anthony Giddens (as presented in La constitution de la société, Paris, PUF, 1987), Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Jean-Claude Kaufmann and Guy Bajoit. |
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| Assessment : | The work carried out by each student will be assessed out of a total of 100 points, which are divided as follows:
Out of 20 points: writing up the work required during the classes.
For this work, the contents will not be the subject of a sommative evaluation. The points will be awarded according to the work the student has carried out and handed in within the given deadlines, and according to the instructions provided.
Out of 80 points: a written test. Based on short reports of everyday situations, the student is required to raise a group of coherent issues, and propose hypotheses regarding the "problematical" areas in each of the given situations.
The quality of the sociological contributions will be assessed by taking into account the following criteria (in decreasing order of importance):
- the accuracy and precision of the sociological contents (the notions used will be properly understood and defined);
- the integration of the different notions used in a global analysis (the assessment will be all the more favourable if the student has linked the various notions, rather than providing a succession of observations with no apparent link);
- the subtlety and originality of the analysis presented.
If the student does not achieve a sufficient mark in the exam (score equal to or less than 7/20), the student's work overall will be penalised by this mark.
In other words, the outcome of the Additional Sociology Questions depends on the result of the written test. |
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| Contacts : | Jean-François Guillaume, Senior lecturer
04/366.35.03
Jean-Francois.Guillaume@ulg.ac.be
Bureau 1.90 (Bâtiment B31, Faculty of Law, Sart Tilman) |
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