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| SOCI2233-1 | Sociology
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Daniel Bodson |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| 1. The specificity of sociological course, particulary in distinguishing it from it from other human sciences: "understanding the social by the social": that is emancipating it from a natural explanation.
Notions and concepts useful for the course.
2. What are you doing when we do science?
- The construction of scientific facts, acquired, constructed, observed. Rupture, construction, experimentation.
- Definition: theory, observation, concept and analysis.
Discussion of causality.
3. The status of reality in sociology.
Socially and culturally constructed reality. Realit is not to be confused with materiality. The relationship to materiality is always mediatized by culture.
4. Methods of investigation in sociology, quantitative as well as qualitative.
- Methods: both the research process and vigilance as to our way of thinking;
- The status of the data: a relevant fact for a problematic;
- Observation : an inquisitive regard;
- The interview: what is the actor's rationality;
- The questionnaire: how many, who are, what proportion, what is the relationship between.
5. The survey by questionnaire.
Who to question? the general population or a sample. Constructing a representative sample.
6. Major theoretical approchoaches
The major paradigms, schemas. The paradigms is not a theoretical system, it's a whole which includes the theoretical system+laws+calculations+graphics+measuring instruments. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The goal of this course is to introduce non-sociology students to sociological procedures from the view point of engineering students. The transversal concern of the course will be to induce students to deal with the societal problematics their scientific formation fits into, with the help of the intellectual tools of sociology.
After completing the course the student is expected to
By the ends of the course the students should, on the one hand, be able to utilize data collection techniques proper to sociology and, on the other hand, adopt sociological perspectives in analyzing problematics linked to the scientific approach to the living world. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Lectures : 24h |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A detailed course outline is available to students. Students must also read five articles related to the course:
La reproduction selon Pierre Bourdieu
La sociologie des sciences de Bruno Latour
La falsification et la corroboration de Karl Popper
Un créationnisme surprenant, Elisa di Pietro
L'évolution, pas un fait, rien qu'une théorie ? Laurence Bouquiaux
Pour information. Les relations science, philosophie, théologie, Bernard Feltz |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written examination (100%) |
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Work placement(s) :
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| No training |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| BODSON Daniel
Bât. GE Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Passage des Déportés 2
5030 Gembloux |
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