Sociologie politique interne

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BROCHURE

academic year

2023-2024

2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Frédéric LOUAULT (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

This course examines the different historical sociology approaches of the formation of the national and of the social State, of the changes in today's State, of the formation of the political and social citizenship, and of the changes in today's citizenship.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

There are two objectives for this course: 1. To give students the conceptual and theoretical instruments concerning the construction of the State and of citizenship; 2. To give students the required information to understand the major mutations in the State and in the notion of citizenship through a series of case studies and comparisons. Specific goals: students should be able to formulate, describe and analyze in which terms the present issues relevant to the problematics of State and citizenship arise. They should also be able to situate the authors studied during the course among the various conceptual scientific approaches and the different ideas of the political thought.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and corequired courses

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course contains 12 two-hours lectures, each made of two parts. The first part is taught ex-cathedra while the second consists in discussions on the subjects previously treated. The ex-cathedra part is based essentially on two books which must be read by the students, and on an overhead projection of the detailed plan of the course. The discussion of the different themes treated ex-cathedra is based on the questions raised by the students. Each lesson provides a specific bibliographic material for those who wish to investigate further a given subject.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

A list of recommended readings shall be given to the students

Other information

Contacts

bmarques@ulb.ac.be S14.208

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

Other

Other

A written "open book" examination of two hours. Evaluation criteria: quality of expression (10%), capacity of synthesis (45%), capacity of argumentation (45%).