The Formation of Contemporary Portuguese Society
Objectives
1. Knowledge and understanding of a set of structures that characterize the Portuguese society as it is configured today, as well as historical processes, economic and social changes that led to this structure.
2. The ability to discuss and analyze structurally the contemporary Portuguese society, using the studies and empirical materials available.
3. The ability to relate the problems of contemporary Portuguese society with long-term economic and social dynamics.
4. The ability to relate the macro and micro scales of problems.
5. The ability to present and communicate acquired knowledge and the results of performed analyses and problematization, in an accurate and meaninful way.
General characterization
Code
01100111
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Susana Paiva Moreira Batista
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
To have accomplished a minimum of 48 ECTS credits
Bibliography
Barreto, A. (1995). Portugal na periferia do centro: mudança social, 1960-1995. Análise Social, 134, pp. 841-855.
Godinho, V.M. (1975). Estrutura da antiga sociedade portuguesa. Lisboa: Arcádia (2ª ed.).
Justino, David (2023). Dualismos múltiplos e modernidade confinada Em Ensaios sobre o dia seguinte. O Mundo, Portugal e aeducação(pp. 183-203). Almedina.
Pinto, A.C. (ed.) (2005). Portugal contemporâneo. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.
Reis, Jaime (1993), O Atraso Português em Perspectiva Histórica, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda.
Santos, B.S. (ed.) (1993). Portugal: Um retrato singular. Porto, Afrontamento.
Sedas Nunes, A. (1964). Portugal, sociedade dualista em evolução. Análise Social. no7-8, pp. 407-462Viegas, J.M.L. & Costa, A.F. (1998). Portugal, que modernidade? Oeiras: Celta.
Teaching method
It is intended that students develop the ability to think scientifically and discuss the structural problems of Portuguese society through five core areas of analysis. Each of these areas will be dissected through a sociometric approach that provides them with the parameters required to build a grounded, contextualised and compared vision on structural problems . The use of statistical information will be privileged to evaluate the ideas and theories that have held the different visions of the backwardness and the "bottlenecks" to Portuguese development .
Evaluation method
a) Individual in-person written exercises to discuss concepts and interpret data. Three exercises will be carried out throughout the semester. The final classification considers the mean of the two highest classifications (35%).
b) Group project work developed throughout the semester with monitoring (65%). It will result in the production of a report with an infographic part, including the initial draft (30%) and the final report (70%).
For completion, it is mandatory to submit all assessment elements (three individual written exercises and report). Note: For students with duly verified student-worker status, the workload and assessment elements are identical; project work can be carried out individually and, if necessary, strategies must be combined to compensate for justified absences.
To ensure effective control of possible academic fraud, the teacher reserves the right, after producing all the required elements, to invite students to meetings with oral discussion, either individually or in groups. This meeting may have an impact on the classification assigned.
Subject matter
0. Introduction, guidelines and key problems.
1. Population, settlement and territory
2. Activity, employment and human capital
3. Economy and development
4. Social structures: groups and dynamics
5. State, political configurations and modes of social and political regulation
Programs
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