Study programme 2018-2019 | Français | ||
Societies and Power | |||
Programme component of Bachelor's Degree in Human and Social Sciences à l"School of Human and Social Sciences |
Code | Type | Head of UE | Department’s contact details | Teacher(s) |
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UH-B3-SCHUMS-019-M | Compulsory UE | DERUETTE Serge | H920 - Sciences politiques |
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Language of instruction | Language of assessment | HT(*) | HTPE(*) | HTPS(*) | HR(*) | HD(*) | Credits | Weighting | Term |
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| Français | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7.00 | 1st term |
AA Code | Teaching Activity (AA) | HT(*) | HTPE(*) | HTPS(*) | HR(*) | HD(*) | Term | Weighting |
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H-SANT-200 | Elements of Economic Anthropology | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q1 | 50.00% |
H-SPOL-302 | Political sociology | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q1 | 50.00% |
Programme component | ||
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UH-B1-SCHUMS-001-M Political Science | ||
UH-B1-SCHUMS-002-M Sociology et Anthropology I |
Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes of UE
At the end of this class, the students will be able to:
- understand some of people's motivations for interaction modes with their environment;
- illustrate with case studies the diversity of socio-economic strategies related to habitat and way of life;
- define basic concepts in economic anthropology;
- understand the issues raised by sustainable agriculture in developing countries and economic aspects of national parks management;
- identifiy the parameters leading to the raise of cult movements - cargo cults among others - in a situation of a crisis;
- describe initiatives in waste management;
- determine economic issues and power relationships involved in the exchange of prestige goods;
- identify cultural causes and social stakes of resilience strategies in a situation of natural disaster;
- discuss controversial topics related to environment management;
- consider the role of political sociology in the history of sociology and political sciences;
- master the political systems theory;
- distinguish and analyse the subjective biases of the discipline.
Content of UE
Adaptation of people to the environment (hunter-gatherers, cultivating societies) and social consequences of operating procedures over the environment. National parks and sustainable environment management. Gift and counter-gift, exchanges and prestige relationships, the role of money. Transculturality and missionary economics. Famines and globalization. Economic strategies in a precarious situation, notably after a natural disaster.
- Sociology, political sciences and political sociology - The main theoretical interpretative trends in sociology - The birth and development of political sociology - Its topics - The political systems theory -The subjective biases of the discipline
Prior Experience
To have attended the Social Anthropology class.
Type of Assessment for UE in Q1
Q1 UE Assessment Comments
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Type of Assessment for UE in Q3
Q3 UE Assessment Comments
Not applicable
Type of Resit Assessment for UE in Q1 (BAB1)
Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)
Not applicable
Type of Teaching Activity/Activities
AA | Type of Teaching Activity/Activities |
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H-SANT-200 |
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H-SPOL-302 |
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Mode of delivery
AA | Mode of delivery |
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H-SANT-200 |
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H-SPOL-302 |
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Required Reading
AA | Required Reading |
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H-SANT-200 | |
H-SPOL-302 |
Required Learning Resources/Tools
AA | Required Learning Resources/Tools |
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H-SANT-200 | Not applicable |
H-SPOL-302 | Not applicable |
Recommended Reading
AA | Recommended Reading |
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H-SANT-200 | |
H-SPOL-302 |
Recommended Learning Resources/Tools
AA | Recommended Learning Resources/Tools |
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H-SANT-200 | Not applicable |
H-SPOL-302 | Not applicable |
Other Recommended Reading
AA | Other Recommended Reading |
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H-SANT-200 | Descola, Philippe. 1986. La Nature domestique : symbolisme et praxis dans l écologie des Achuar. Publié par la Fondation Singer-Polignac. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l Homme. Godelier, Maurice. 1996 (1982). La production des grands hommes. Pouvoir et domination masculine chez les Baruya de Nouvelle-Guinée. Paris : Fayard. Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1963(1922). Les Argonautes du Pacifique occidental, Paris, Gallimard. Mauss, Marcel. 1999[1923]. Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques. In Mauss, Marcel,Sociologie et anthropologie, 143-279. Paris: Quadrige/Presses Universitaires de France. |
H-SPOL-302 | Not applicable |
Grade Deferrals of AAs from one year to the next
AA | Grade Deferrals of AAs from one year to the next |
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H-SANT-200 | Authorized |
H-SPOL-302 | Authorized |