Introduction to sociology and digital issues

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Frédéric Schoenaers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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".
To conclude the course, conférences will be presented. They will refer to the emergence of the "digital society"

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

none

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Second 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.

Recommended or required readings

O. Kuty, La négociation des valeurs, Editions De Boeck, 1997.

The text about the conférences will be psoted on Myulg.

Assessment methods and criteria

Writen examination with open questions

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

additional documents distributed before or after the sessions

Contacts

F. Schoenaers

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