SOCI0104-1 : Sociology of Social Control

Study Programmes 2015-2016

SOCI0104-1

Sociology of Social Control

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Master in criminology (120 ECTS)		4
Master in sociology (120 ECTS)		3
Master in sociology and anthropology (60 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

Christophe Dubois, André Lemaître

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

Some of the principal mecanisms of social control will be examined in various fields, sucha as drugs use, risks prevention, mental health disease (via the Belgian model of social defense) and sentence enforcement (via prison and probation examples) .

Learning outcomes of the course :

The very first aim is to put in evidence the intimate connections which bound together such notions as "social control" and "social regulation", "caracteristics of social exchange" and "social order", devices, norms, values, measurement and behaviours.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

General sociology

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

This course will be organized as a seminar. After two introductory sessions, the students will host several sessions during which experts will be invited to deliver their experiences. Their presentations will be discussed by the students.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face