Duration
Theoretical courses : 24h Th
Lectures approfondies de textes : 6h Moni. ex.
Number of credits
| Master in sociology (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits | |||
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Theoretical courses : Stéphane Dawans
Lectures approfondies de textes : Stéphane Dawans
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Theoretical courses
The urban question is the today's major concern : the complete urbanization of the planet, such a
The urban question becomes all the more urgent as the complete urbanization of the planet, hypothesis that Henri Lefebvre had formulated around 1968, seems to be realized at an unexpected speed. As the world population grows in a vertiginous way, as the current work of a radical geography verifies (Harvey, Davis ...), the city dwellers will represent two thirds of the population in 10 years, in other words, 5 billions of human beings will flock to larger and larger cities. It is therefore not surprising to see sociologists like Jean-Marc Stébé and Hervé Marchal affirming that "the city as a human institution has largely imposed itself in our ways of thinking, feeling, acting, moving , to communicate, to love, to consume ... "or philosophers like Olivier Mongin and Thierry Paquot speaking of" urban condition "or even of « homo urbanus » to apprehend this socio-spatial transformation unprecedented in human history.
Among the urban studies or urban studies, the sociology of the city strives to make this phenomenon intelligible since the second half of the 19th century when the first metropolis appeared with the industrial society. Today, in a post-Fordist regime, cities are redeploying themselves according to the modalities imposed by the « new spirit of capitalism ». New phenomena are emerging: economic globalization of the world, development of new technologies and mobility, birth of globalized megacities ... Their analysis therefore requires the mobilization of new concepts (network city in Castell's and Dupuys' work, actor-network theory in Latour ...)
In this course, we will try to identify how the social and the spatial articulate at two key moments in recent history: the turn of the 20th century when the theories of progressive and culturalist urbanism clash (Choay ), and the turn of the 21st century when the industrial city is brought to reconfigure itself under the blow of an economy become largely tertiary, tourist and globalized.
To give us the necessary tools to understand how this spatial / social articulation works in a world in the middle of a reconfiguration, we will quickly draw the history of urban sociology to approach the authors (from Marx to Sennett), the texts (original as well as make possible) and the essential concepts of the discipline (organic solidarity, sociation, urban area, ... lived space, ... metropolisation).
Lectures approfondies de textes
The urban question is the today's major concern : the complete urbanization of the planet, such as Henri Lefebvre already envisaged in 1970, seems to be realized gradually and even more quickly. The Urbanization process has given way to a metropolization regime. As we know that city dwellers will account for two-thirds of the world population by 2030, it seems necessary to focus more than ever on what might be called "the urban condition."
The Urban sociology is working to make this phenomenon intelligible for a bit more than a century. Therefore, after quickly introduced the discipline (Weber, Simmel, Chicago School,...) we will examine the themes that drive the latest research (both in sociology in urban planning). urbanity, centrality, territoriality (the neighborhood ...), segregation (suburbanization, relegation, gentrification ...), public space, "intermediate" spaces that, taking account of social issues, are the subject of particular interest among architects), etc.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Theoretical courses
At the end of the course, the students will notably be able to identify these new movements of the contemporary city (gentrification, periurbanisation, relegation, ...) and to explain the political stakes of what the geographer Michel Lussault approaches as a struggle for places, after the class struggle ...
Lectures approfondies de textes
This course is directed to both architecture students (3e B) and sociology students (Master). Its main goal is to lead students in architecture and in sociology to wonder what sociology can bring to the understanding of urbanized spaces as well as how to adapt them while changing their practices. Architects and sociologists are likely to work together in order to act on the city, from interdisciplinary platforms. This course is an invitation to open a dialogue.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Theoretical courses
None
Lectures approfondies de textes
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Theoretical courses
The course will be mainly given in masterful form (with the help of a power point, excerpts from documentaries, ...) and possibly accompanied by one or two presentations of researchers
Lectures approfondies de textes
The course will be mainly given in masterful form (with the help of a power point, excerpts from documentaries, ...) and possibly accompanied by one or two presentations of researchers
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Theoretical courses
The course will be mainly given in masterful form (with the help of a power point, excerpts from documentaries, ...) and possibly accompanied by one or two presentations of researchers
Recommended or required readings
Theoretical courses
La sociologie urbaine. Par Jean-Marc Stébé et Hervé Marchal. Année : 2018; Pages : 128; Collection : Que sais-je ? Éditeur : Presses Universitaires de France.
Lectures approfondies de textes
Course notes resuming the logical structure (+ bibliography) and a reading portfolio will be available.
Assessment methods and criteria
Theoretical courses
Examen écrit et/ou oral pour les étudiants en architecture et oral pour les étudiants en sociologie
Lectures approfondies de textes
Examen écrit et/ou oral pour les étudiants en architecture et oral pour les étudiants en sociologie
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Theoretical courses
Stéphane Dawans
Lectures approfondies de textes
Stéphane Dawans
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
cours du 1er quadri ne nécessitant pas d'adaptation