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?
Références
Articles à lire pour chacune des séances.
- Chardon O. (2010), 50 ans de mutations de l’emploi, Insee Première, n° 1312 et Pison G. (2014), 1914-2014 : un siècle d’évolution de la pyramide des âges en France, Populations et Sociétés, n°509.
- Vanderschelden M. (2006), Homogamie socioprofessionnelle et ressemblance en termes de niveau d'études : constat et évolution au fil des cohortes d'unions, Économie et statistique, n°398(1).
- Vallet L.A. (2014), Mobilité observée et fluidité sociale en France de 1977 à 2003, Idées économiques et sociales, n° 175.
- Van Leeuwen M.H., Maas I., Rébaudo D. et Pélissier J.P. (2016), Social Mobility in France 1720–1986: Effects of Wars, Revolution and Economic Change, Journal of Social History, 49(3), 585-616.
- Swift A. (2004), Would perfect mobility be perfect?, European Sociological Review, 20(1), 1-11.
- Neckerman K.M. et Torche F. (2007), Inequality: Causes and consequences, Annual Review of Sociology, 33, 335-357.
- Sevilla A., Gimenez-Nadal J.I. et Gershuny, J. (2012), Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965–2003, Demography, 49(3), 939-964.
- Héran F. (1988), La sociabilité, une pratique culturelle, Economie et statistique, n° 216.
- Marmot M. (2005), Social determinants of health inequalities, The Lancet, 365(9464), 1099-1104.
- Dubet F. (2005), Sociologie : quelles évolutions ? Les places de la sociologie dans les sciences sociales, Cahiers français, n° 326.
- Goldthorpe J.H. (2001), Causation, statistics, and sociology, European Sociological Review, 17(1), 1-20.
- Martin M.A. (2008), The intergenerational correlation in weight: how genetic resemblance reveals the social role of families, American journal of sociology, 114(S1).