Duration
30h Th, 15h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
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
This teaching focuses on the family, through its structural evolutions and its functions, particularly educational.
During this academic year 2022-2023, these questions will be explored from the point of view of adolescent eating. This phenomenon, which has been widely explored by medical, genetic, psychological and behavioral approaches, will be placed under a sociological light. The impact of the socio-historical context on the production and reproduction of dietary norms will be considered from the point of view of the role played by the main institutions of socialization (family, school) and the impact of gender and class on the orientations and modalities of the educational process (including dietary education).
The trainers will introduce keys to understanding and analyzing the social dimensions (family and school educational practices) of the "food" experience.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Training in the Sociology of Family and Education course is designed to develop the following skills or abilities:
1°) to distance oneself from common sense propositions about eating patterns in adolescence;
2°) to collect data related to eating practices during adolescence from a witness and during an exploratory interview;
3°) to extract from a comparison between the different accounts collected recurrent or distinctive features of eating practices during adolescence;
4°) to translate the contributions of this comparison into a sociological problematic;
5°) mobilize theoretical contributions (discussed during the course and completed by reading scientific articles - see indicative reference list) to shed sociological light on the recurrences and/or differences identified in the accounts of eating practices during adolescence;
6°) argue the theoretical orientations retained for the analysis of the collected data.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No prerequisites or corequisites. However, students are invited to use the basic notions of sociology, and more specifically, for students in the Master's program in Psychological Sciences, Clinical Family and Systemic Psychology option, the course SOCI0070-1 Elements of Sociology (Marc Poncelet) and, for students in the Master's program in Sociology, the sociology courses included in the program for the Bachelor's degree in Human and Social Sciences.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course sessions will be organized in three parts.
First part of the session (1 hour): presentation by the teacher (theme, concepts, theories, etc.)
Second part of the session (45 minutes): individual or group work (reading, discussion, use of documents, etc.)
Third part of the session (15 minutes): correction of the work; conclusion of the session (e.g., formalization of a synthesis intended to stabilize the relevant proposals for the final analysis report).
Formative evaluation times are also introduced at the end of some sessions.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face teaching. A modification of the teaching method is possible in case of evolution of the sanitary conditions.
Recommended or required readings
A reference bibliography will be provided to students at the beginning of the course and will be made available to them via the Ultra (formerly eCampus) digital platform page of the SOCI0208-1 course.
Each student will be asked to read one of the articles listed in the reference list.
This article will be used during the exploitation and discussion of the interviews.
Written work / report
Additional information:
Based on a comparative analysis of accounts collected from men and women of different generations on their eating practices during adolescence, the writing of an individual report aimed at highlighting the relative weight of social institutions and institutions of socialization in the form and nature of these practices.
Each student conducts an interview with a person chosen according to criteria presented during the course. This interview is transcribed in its entirety and communicated to the person who was interviewed for review. The conduct of this interview must take into account the legal (RGPD) and ethical standards of reference.
The transcribed interview must be communicated to the trainers by Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 5:00 pm at the latest.
The interview will be conducted on the basis of the questions identified in the course sessions and on the basis of the instructions that will have been specified by the trainers.
The transcribed interviews will be made available to the students (via the eCampus page of the course).
They will be discussed and used in groups (+/- 6 students). The interviews will be based on the questions that will have been identified during the course sessions. Their discussion will result in two written documents that must be completed within the set timeframe.
The first document is written collectively: its writing is compulsory, but it is not subject to a numerical evaluation.
The second document is written individually. It constitutes the final evaluation. This analysis will consider the following question: "What shapes eating practices during adolescence? It will necessarily include statistical framing data, the mobilization of at least two of the articles from the reference bibliography list and some of the concepts discussed during the course sessions.
This individual report analyzing the data collected will consist of a document not exceeding 10 pages (1.5 line spacing, font 11), not including bibliographic references.
The quality of the sociological contributions will be evaluated by taking into account the following criteria (in decreasing order of importance): the accuracy and precision of the sociological content (the concepts used will be correctly understood and defined); the integration of the different concepts used in a global analysis (the evaluation will be more favorable if the student has proceeded to an articulation of the different concepts, rather than to a succession of observations with no apparent link); the finesse and the originality of the analysis presented.
Work placement(s)
No internship organized as part of the Sociology of Family and Education course.
Organizational remarks
Attendance at course sessions recommended.
Contacts
Mona Claro, Chargée de cours, bureau 0.96 (Bât.B31, Sart Tilman), Mona.Claro@uliege.be
Jean-François Guillaume, Professeur, bureau 1.90 (Bât.B31, Sart Tilman), 04 366 35 03, Jean-Francois.Guillaume@uliege.be