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Current Issues in Sociology

ECTS : 3

Volume horaire : 27

Description du contenu de l'enseignement :

This course aims to address three major issues concerning the labour market: the construction and imposition of norms, the definition of power, and the future of organizations between stability and innovation. Building on the fundamental contributions of 20th century sociology (symbolic interactionism, critical sociology, organization theory, pragmatic sociology, sociology of gender etc.), the objective is to provide conceptual tools so that students can better analyze the situations they will face during their working lives. The issue is also to better understand the more general social challenges affecting work and organizations today.

Compétence à acquérir :

This is an undergraduate-level introduction to sociology for management and business students. Students will learn key sociological theories, methods, empirical results.

Mode de contrôle des connaissances :

Continuous assessment: 50%
Final exam: 50%

Bibliographie, lectures recommandées :

A useful reference textbook:  Anthony GIDDENS & Philip W. SUTTON, “What is sociology?”, Sociology, Polity press, 2017.

Extracts from texts by key authors Charles W. Mills, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Howard Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Arlie R. Hochschild etc. will be provided.

Université Paris Dauphine - PSL - Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny - 75775 PARIS Cedex 16 - 06/07/2024