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Language
English
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Content
In recent decades, significant developments, such as rising education levels, the increasing mobility of people and goods, European integration and globalization, or the development of social media transformed our democracies and the modes of expression of citizenship, in Europe in particular. Through theoretical and empirical tools of political sociology, this course aims to provide understanding of these current transformations. Like any social science, political sociology mobilizes competing paradigms that guide the measure and explanation of the democratic phenomena under scrutiny. This course aims to give an account of some of the central controversies of the discipline surrounding the issues of democracy and citizenship in contemporary societies, in a globalized world.
Teaching methods
Seminar sessions, reading, discussion and presentation.
Evaluation methods
The grade obtained by the student will combine the following elements:
- Each session will be introduced by a discussion of a theme (among those covered in the course) presented by one or several students based on an scientific book. This will be the subject of a short written note. A text on the theme of the session will be made available and will be compulsory reading for all students. Students' regular participation in discussion of the compulsory readings (questions to be posted on Moodle) and in the course will also be considered (30%).
- The first drafts of the research project to be submitted will take the form of a research poster to be presented at a mini-conference organized at the end of the semester. The posters will be discussed in a peer-review exercise. These two exercises (20%) will enable students to obtain feedback on the progress of their work. At this stage, the content will not yet be evaluated.
- Final validation will take the form of a research project (50%) relating to one or more of the issues addressed in the seminar.
- Each session will be introduced by a discussion of a theme (among those covered in the course) presented by one or several students based on an scientific book. This will be the subject of a short written note. A text on the theme of the session will be made available and will be compulsory reading for all students. Students' regular participation in discussion of the compulsory readings (questions to be posted on Moodle) and in the course will also be considered (30%).
- The first drafts of the research project to be submitted will take the form of a research poster to be presented at a mini-conference organized at the end of the semester. The posters will be discussed in a peer-review exercise. These two exercises (20%) will enable students to obtain feedback on the progress of their work. At this stage, the content will not yet be evaluated.
- Final validation will take the form of a research project (50%) relating to one or more of the issues addressed in the seminar.
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