Sociology of Territory

Objectives

1. Knowledge and understanding of the sociological frameworks for considering territorial change;
2. Ability to analyse processes of territorial change, decomposing their actor systems, the interests at stake and the social practices in their relations with the forms of use and with the occupation of territories;
3. Ability to communicate sociological knowledge about the theme in an accurate and meaningful way;
4. Ability to carry out informed and critical intervention to monitor the implementation of territorial policies and programs.

General characterization

Code

01100077

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

João Pedro Lopes de Oliveira Silva Nunes

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Andrade, L. T., Jayme, J. G., & Almeida, R. C. (2009). Espaços públicos: novas sociabilidades, novos controles. Cadernos Metrópole, 21, 131–153. (PDF)

Bourdieu, P. (2013) “Espaço físico, espaço social e espaço físico apropriado”, Estudos Avançados 27 (79): 133-144.

Chamboredon, J.-C. (2020 [1985]) “As novas formas da oposição campo-cidade” in Baptista, L., Mazzella, S., Pereira, P. e J.P. Nunes (eds.) Pensar o Território: Jean-Claude Chamboredon, uma abordagem pioneira. VN Famalicão: Húmus

Fearon, D. (2004). Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Space. CSISS Classics. UC Santa Barbara: Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7s73860q

Giddens, A. (2003). A Constituição da Sociedade. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, cap. 3. (PDF)

Goffman, E. (2010). Relations in public. Microstudies of the public order [1971]. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, pp. 28-61. (PDF)

Hall, E. T. (1986). A Dimensão Oculta. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, caps. 9, 10, 11 e 12. (PDF)

Lyman, Stanford and Scott, M.B (1967) ‘Territoriality: A Neglected Sociological Dimension’, Social Problems, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 236-249 (PDF)

Martínez,E. e A. López, (2002). “El desarrollo de la morfología social y la interpretación de las grandes ciudades”. Scripta Nova. Revista electrónica de geografía y ciencias sociales, Universidad de Barcelona, vol. VI, núm. 111.

McKenzie, R. D. (1984). The Ecological Approach to the Study of the Human Community [publicado pela 1a vez em 1924]. In R. E. Park, E. W. Burgess, & R. D. McKenzie (eds.),The city: suggestions for investigation of human behavior in the urban environment. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (PDF)

Newby, H. (1980). An introduction to Sociology. Comparison and change: community. Milton Keynes: The Open University Press. (PDF)

Silvano, F. (2001). Antropologia do Espaço. Uma introdução. Oeiras: Celta, pp. 7-14. (PDF)

Škoric ́, M., Kišjuhas, A., & Škoric ́, J. (2013). Excursus on the Stranger in the Context of Simmel’s Sociology of Space. Sociológia, 6 (45), 589–602.

Teaching method

Theoretical classes (50%);
Practical classes (50%): exploration of various documentation provided by the teacher; oral presentation of results from the application of the observation protocol provided for in the practical component of the course, tutorial support for the completion of final reports.
In-person teaching.

Evaluation method

Two individual written face-to-face tests covering all theoretical material (40%+30%=70%).

Group work (written and oral presentation) resulting from observation and interpretation of public territories, based on the subjects exposed during the sessions of the theoretical component of the discipline (30%).

The work must have a maximum of 15 pages and a minimum of 13 pages, and must be delivered in an electronic version on Inforestudate
The worker-student assessment method consists of carrying out an individual written test in person on all theoretical material (70%) + summary of a text assigned by draw by teachers, delivered at the end of the semester, on a platform to be indicated (30%) with a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 7.

This written work must present the arguments present in the assigned text and in the conclusion these arguments must be articulated with matters exposed in the sessions of the theoretical component of the discipline.

International students can choose between the “regular” assessment method and the worker-student method, taking the written test and individual work on a drawn text.

Subject matter

Thematic Block 1. Territory from a sociological perspective (theoretical component)
1. Georg Simmel's approach

2. The Social Morphology approach

3. The Human Ecology approach

4. The notion of “proxemics” and Edward Hall’s approach.

5. The concept of “territories of interaction and the self”: the contribution of E. Goffman

6. The “modes of regionalization”: the contribution of Anthony Giddens

Thematic Block 2. The diversity of territorial dynamics (Theoretical component)

1. New forms of city-country opposition
2. Community and territory

3. Public and private territories

Thematic Block 3. Problems in Sociology of Territory

1. The spatialization of social life

2. Social and territorial inequalities

3. Mobilities

Block 4. Practical component of the course: application of a short observation protocol "Behavior and interactions in public spaces".

Programs

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