Advanced Studies in Social and Human Sciences Seminar

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

— Seminar sessions with prior programming of topics and bibliography support.

Learning Outcomes

— To know the main currents of thought and paradigms in social and human sciences as framework of debates about the contemporary society in order to hold a theoretical framework where found the theoretical study and practical of diverse contemporary social problems.

— To analyse the major turns in the production of theory in Social and Human Sciences, which simultaneously follow and engender deep changes both in the processes of interpretation and of agency in the contemporary world.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. The main actual paradigms in Social Sciences, namely: Bourdieu: social space, symbolic space and domination; Berger e Luckhmann : Interactions of social structures: the social construction of reality;; Habermas, N. Fraser: public sphere, democracy and gender; Butler: Gender and postmodernity; Giddens: Late Modernity, personal identity and reflexivity , Beck. E. Beck-Gernsheim: The risk society.

II. The major turns in the production of theory in Human and Social Sciences under the cultural lens: In the beginning was “class”; The “feminist revolution”; “The Empire strikes back”- race and ethnicity; After “the end of history”.

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristina Maria Pinto Albuquerque

Assessment Methods

Assessment
A individual paper that articulate the sociological theories discussed with the students' research topics: 100.0%

Bibliography

— Auyero, J (2012). Patients of the state: the politics of waiting in Argentina, Durham e Londres, Duke University Press

— Beck, U., Giddens, A. Lash, S. (2000) Modernização Reflexiva: Política Tradição e Estética no Mundo Moderno, Oeiras, Celta.

— Beck, U. (2015), Sociedade de risco mundial: em busca da segurança perdida, Lisboa, Edicações 70.

— Bennett, Tony and John Frow, eds (2008) The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis, Los Angeles, London, Sage.

— Bourdieu, P. (2014) Sobre o Estado: curso no Collège de France (1989-1992), Lisboa, Edições 70

— Butler, J. (2004) Undoing Gender, New York, Routledge

— Delanty, G. and Turner, S. (eds) (2014), Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory, London, Routledge.

— Hall, Stuart (1992) “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies”, in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Nelson & Treichler, New York, Routledge, pp. 277-294.