Sociology : social structures and social change

lopes13301  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

Sociology : social structures and social change
6.00 credits
30.0 h + 10.0 h
Q2

  This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!

Teacher(s)
Verhoeven Marie;
Language
French
Content
In general, the course aims to introduce students to sociology and its approach. The course offers three types of content :
  1. The presentation of the main paradigms of sociology and the introduction to the classical authors of sociology ;
  2. The presentation and discussion of a selection of emblematic research of the discipline on a certain number of social phenomena:
  3. An introduction to the main elements of the sociologist's approach.
The course is designed to enable students to situate the major currents or paradigms in sociology and to reason about a social problem within one of these paradigms
Course outline
  • Introduction to sociological thought ;
  • The paradigms of sociology ;
  • Presentation of authors and research of reference ;
Development around contemporary themes.
Teaching methods
The courses will be given face-to-face. Lectures by the teacher will alternate with time for individual and group work (exercises, analysis of texts). A teaching contract is communicated to students at the beginning of the course and posted on Moodle. It contains a detailed schedule, content and instructions for the assessments
Evaluation methods
The assessment includes individual and group contributions. The precise instructions are communicated at the beginning of the course in the teaching contract. In the event of a second session, a new individual assessment test will be offered to the students concerned. This will be based on a written assignment. The student will contact the professor to find out the modalities and the timetable of this work. For both sessions, the language of assessment is French.
Other information
This activity takes place according to pedagogical, timetable and organisational modalities adapted to the specific public of the FOPES. We refer the students to the pedagogical contract.
Online resources
Course material and information on the course Moodle site and/or in the teaching contract.
Bibliography
Des repères bibliographiques sont disponibles dans le support du cours (Powerpoint) et en annexe du contrat pédagogique.
Teaching materials
  • Un PowerPoint est fourni par l’enseignant et certains textes (lectures obligatoires) seront déposés au fur et à mesure sur Moodle.
Faculty or entity
OPES