Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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), occupational crime, and sentence enforcement (via prison and probation examples) .
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The very first aim is to put in evidence the intimate connections which bound together such notions as "social control" and "regulation"; "caracteristics of social exchange" and "social order"; dominatyion, power and authority; surveillance, correction, repression; devices, norms, values, measurement and behaviours.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
General sociology
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
This course will be ex cathedra organised and completed by students' oral presentations.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
A reading list is communicated during the first class and some more scientific articles will be posted online along the year.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam.