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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
SOCI1106-1  Sociology
Duration :  45h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Bachelor in Law, 1st yearFirst semester4
Bachelor in Law, 2nd yearFirst semester4
Bachelor in Political Sciences, 1st yearFirst semester4
Holder(s) :  Frédéric Schoenaers
Language :  French language
Course contents :  The course will focus on the definition of 2 main concepts of sociology: Interest and Value. The classical sociology and Machiavelli have created the concept of interest: the idea of a calculation, related to the idea of adaptation to a situation. The concept of value sends back to a community of strong and shared feelings. We shall present the analyses of Machiavelli, Montesquieu, de Tocqueville and Weber of this subject.

The contemporary sociology proposes the words of strategy and collective identity to encircle theses same ideas. Basis for the course: the book of Crozier dedicated to an analysis of the French administration: "the bureaucratic phenomenon".
Course objective :  Understand a strong constituent reasoning about sociology: the link between the interests and the values through the study of some big works of sociology, from Machiavelli to Crozier.

This understanding will be tested with help of a comparison of the authors or approaches: it is thus important not to limit yourself to the systematic statement of an author, nor to a unique point of view, but to be able to compare, connect similar points of the course together.

N.B.: You shall be able to place the authors and the historic facts in a chronological order.
Prerequisites :  none
Organization :  First semester

The private lessons are optional and are considered as a revision of the course and organised in questions/answers sessions.

To know when, where and about what the examination will be, please consult the notice board.
Written notes :  O. Kuty, La négociation des valeurs, Editions De Boeck, 1997.
Sold in all book stores (Pax, Fnac, ...)
Assessment :  januari and may: written examination augustus-septembre: written examination followed by a picking-up oral exam (for students with 7/20 - 9/20)
Contacts :  Teaching assistant: julie colemans


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