Sociology
Teacher
COAVOUX Samuel
Department: Sociology
ECTS:
2.5
Course Hours:
19.5
Tutorials Hours:
0
Language:
French
Examination Modality:
written exam
Objective
The course is designed as an introduction to sociology, presenting the principal stages in the history of sociological thought and a few major themes in contemporary social science research. Its purpose is to set out and discuss theories, analysis methods and empirical results, with a particular emphasis on work that calls for quantitative techniques. Each session will be devoted to a specific theme. The first part of the session will lay out the main theoretical reference points and the findings of empirical research in the given domain, and a group of students will be invited in the second part to give an oral presentation lasting about twenty minutes on a more specific subject. Each student must participate in a presentation during the semester for the course to be validated. The presentation subjects will generally take the form of a critical discussion of texts and research results based on a documentation file handed out at the beginning of the year. Evaluation of the course will be based on thegrouppresentations and anindividualreview of a book or set of texts, a list of which will be handed out during the first session of the course, when the presentations in later sessions will be planned and definitive registrations will be taken.
Planning
- General introduction -Course presentation. The different research formulae in sociology. Allocation of presentations.
- Stratification and social classes -Presentation: The end of social class?
- Social mobility -Presentation: Social justice and meritocracy
- School and inequalities -Presentation: The massification of education and democratisation of teaching
- The sociology of voting and political behaviour -Presentation: Metamorphoses in class voting
- Sociology of immigration and integration -Presentation: Spatial segregation questions
- Culture, norms and values -Presentation: The post-materialism controversy
- Culture and lifestyles -Presentation: Is the distinction model still relevant?
References
1. (Groupe 1) Muriel Darmon « The School Form of the Hospital: How
Does Social Class Affect Post-Stroke Patients in Rehabilitation Units? »,
Qualitative Sociology, 2020, vol. 43, n° 2, p. 235?254.
2. (Groupe 2) Kevin Kiley et Stephen Vaisey « Measuring Stability and
Change in Personal Culture Using Panel Data », American Sociological
Review, p. 30.
3. (Groupe 3) Martin Hand, Elizabeth Shove, et Dale Southerton « Explain-
ing Showering: A Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal
Dimensions of Practice », Sociological Research Online, 2005, vol. 10, n° 2,
p. 101?113.
4. (Groupe 1) Laura Silvia Lungu « Bling-Bling Politics: Exposure to Status-
Goods Consumption Shapes the Social Policy Preferences of the Less Af-
fuent », Socio-Economic Review, 2023, vol. 21, n° 2, p. 1057?1082.
5. (Groupe 2) Natasha Dow Schull « Digital Gambling: The Coincidence of
Desire and Design », The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, 2005, vol. 597, n° 1, p. 65?81.
6. (Groupe 3) Lauren A. Rivera « Hiring as Cultural Matching », American
Sociological Review, 2012, vol. 77, n° 6, p. 999?1022.
27. (Groupe 1) Austin C. Kozlowski, Matt Taddy, et James A. Evans « The
Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Em-
beddings », American Sociological Review, 2019, vol. 84, n° 5, p. 905?949.
8. (Groupe 2) Colin Jerolmack et Edward T. Walker « Please in My Back-
yard: Quiet Mobilization in Support of Fracking in an Appalachian Com-
munity », American Journal of Sociology, 2018, vol. 124, n° 2, p. 479?516.
9. (Groupe 3) Roza Meuleman et Mads Meier Jæger « Cultural Talk or Cul-
tural Walk? Highbrow Tastes and Network Quality », Social Science
Research, 2023, vol. 111, p. 102855.
10. (Rattrapage) Michael Sauder « A Sociology of Luck », Sociological Theory,
2020, p. 073527512094117