Sociology of Power and Administration
0
2024-2025
01008786
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Knowledge and interest in Political Sociology.
Teaching Methods
Seminar with the presentation and commentary by the students of texts, as well of a press observatory, including discussion between them and the teacher.
Learning Outcomes
Overall objectives
To present the theoretical framework of sociological analysis about (both Central and Local) Power and Administration.
Specific objectives
To identify, understand and systematize the political and administrative action.
Generic competencies
Generation of analysis and (oral and written) communication.
Specific competencies
Development of cognitive and methodological capacities.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Power and political phenomenon. The exercise of political power. Concentration and decentralization of political power.
Central and Local Governments: central, local and European labirinths; networks and power; markets, hierarchies, communities and networks regulations. Central and local government theories. Local governments structural frame of operating. State and relational power. Governments and informal networks. Consequencies for the portuguese political system and its several levels of government.
Assessment Methods
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Continuous Assessment
Group and individual assignments, participation in class : 50.0%
final exam : 50.0%
Bibliography
A participação e os debates são centrais para uma melhor compreensão da complexidade dos sistemas de poder político.
Participation and debates are central to a better understanding of the complexity of the political power systems.
AGNEW, John A.-Place and politics : the geographical mediation of state and society. Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1987. [BP 316.334.3 AGN]
FERNANDES, António Teixeira - Os fenómenos políticos : sociologia do poder. Porto : Edições Afrontamento, 1998. [BP 316.334.3 FER]
RUIVO, Fernando- O acesso dos imigrantes aos espaços políticos locais. Coimbra : Edições Almedina, 2013. [NO PRELO]
RUIVO, Fernando- O Estado labiríntico : o poder relacional nas relações entre poderes local e central em Portugal. Porto : Edições Afrontamento, 2000. [BP 316.334.3 RUI]
RUIVO, Fernando- O poder local português e a construção europeia : : o Estado labiríntico revisitado. Coimbra : Edições Almedina : CES, 2011. [BP 35 RUI]
RUIVO, Fernando- Poder local e exclusão social. 2ª ed.. Coimbra : Quarteto Editora. 2002. [BP 304 RUI]