Contemporary Portuguese Society

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

In the classes, the contents of the curricular unit will be presented and systematized, as well as the collective debate around the bibliography of the program. The theoretical and conceptual tools of sociology will be used in the framework of various transdisciplinary configurations. In addition to the compulsory reading texts, other materials, such as press texts, films or documentaries on DVD about contemporary Portugal, statistical data, etc. will be used. It is in this sense that we include in the classes press observatories to be presented by the students.

Learning Outcomes

Goals

a) to know the main characteristics of contemporary Portuguese society, especially in relation to the last decades; b) to acquire a contextualized vision of Portuguese society, taking into account its transformations, recompositions and continuities in a historical and international perspective; c) familiarization with the interpretive theoretical frameworks of the evolution of Portuguese society and its current configuration.

Skills

a) to identify, explain and relate the social, economic, political and cultural structures and processes of contemporary Portuguese society; b) explain and relate the changes and continuities that have taken place over time in Portuguese society and insert them in a comparative context at international level, in general terms, and at European level in particular; c) apply theoretical concepts and problems in the approach to multiple phenomena and dynamics of Portuguese society.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Insertion of Portuguese society in the world context of the nineteenth century to the present time: 1.1 From the structure of the old Portuguese society to contemporaneity; 1.2 From colonial Portugal to post-colonial Portugal; 1.3 The redefinition of the semiperipheral status of the Portuguese company; 1.4 The late and incomplete modernization processes of Portuguese society; 2. Representations of Portuguese society, collective memory and national identity; 3. Transformations, recompositions and inequalities in Portuguese society: 3.1 demographic evolution and social dynamics; 3.2 Changes and continuities in social structures (socio-professional reconfigurations, social mobility and precariousness of life); 3.3 Gender social relations; 4. Private life and modernization processes: 4.1 Domestic and family daily; 4.2 Intimacy, sexuality and love relationships; 4.3 Sociabilities, leisure and new technologies.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Simões Lopes Paiva de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Research work: 70.0%

Bibliography

Almeida, A. N. de (coord.), 2011, História da vida privada em Portugal: Os Nossos Dias. Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores.

Cardoso, G. et al., 2015, A sociedade em rede em Portugal: uma década de transição. Coimbra, Almedina.

Cardoso, J. L. et al. (orgs.), 2013, Portugal social de A a Z – temas em aberto. Lisboa: ICS.

Carmo, R. M. do et al. (orgs.), 2018, Desigualdades sociais. Portugal e a Europa. Lisboa, Editora Mundos Sociais.

e-cadernos CES, nº29, 2018 ("Portugal: um retrato ainda singular? 40 anos volvidos").

Fortuna, C., 1993, O Fio da Meada. Porto, Afrontamento.

Lopes, J. T. et al., 2017, As Classes Populares: A produção e a reprodução da desigualdade em Portugal. Lisboa, Bertrand.

Mattoso, J., 2008, A Identidade Nacional. Lisboa, Gradiva.

Portugal, S., 2014,, Família e redes sociais. Coimbra, Almedina.

Santos, B. de S., 2012, Portugal: Ensaio contra a autoflagelação. Coimbra, Almedina.

Viegas, J. M. L.; Costa, A. F. da (orgs.), 1998, Portugal, que Modernidade?. Oeiras, Celta.