Currículo

Culture, Economy and Society CES

Contextos

ECTS

4.0 (para cálculo da média)

Objectivos

The main aim of this course is to develop observational, analytical and critical skills on culture. The focus is on social life and interaction, by encompassing sociological theory and concepts, as well as practical field experience. Specific objectives: - To understand that social life has no natural sections or frontiers, and that social sciences and their specialities do strictly correspond to conventional perspectives that change over time, space and social circumstances. - To understand the concept of Culture, its history, and its main versions and theoretical approaches. - To understand the place of ?Culture? and Cultural Analysis in the universe of Social Sciences. - To understand a selected array of Cultural Analysis?s topics, such as Economy, Consumer Culture, Society, like Market, Space and Time, the Public/Private divide, and also the many connections between them.

Programa

1. Culture is ordinary; 2. Tradition, Modernity, and Post-modernity and the Cultural Turn; 3. Globalization and the Spatial Turn; 4. Themes of cultural analysis: from landscape to economy, and much more; 5. Culture, Economy and Society: Aesthetization, Emotionalization, Commodification and Rationalization; 6. Consumer Culture and the Sensorium; 7. "Take a walk in the wild side": cultural observation and analysis.

Método de Avaliação

The final grade will result from the weighted average of two main assignments and the participation in inside (class attendance and engagement) and outside (short visits in town) activities: 1) Assignment 1 ? a research group project: 50%. 2) Assignment 2 ? a short individual essay on a freely chosen topic: 30%. 3) Activities participation: 20%. A final exam will be available for the students whose option is not to take part in the group project and the individual essay.

Carga Horária

Bibliografia

Principal

• Post-Fordism: Models, Fantasies and Phantoms of Transition: Amin, Ash 1994 In Ash Amin (ed.), Post-Fordism: A Reader, Oxford, Blackwell: 1-39.
• Key Concepts in Cultural Theory: Edgar, Andrew e Peter Sedgwick (eds) 1999 Londres, Routledge.
• Core Sociological Dichotomies: Jenks, Chris (ed.) 1998 Londres, Sage.
• Gated communities, commodification and aestheticization: The case of the Lisbon Metropolitan area: Raposo, Rita 2006 Geojournal, 66, pp. 43-56.
• Consumer Culture & Modernity: Slater, Don 1997 Cambridge, Polity Press: 8-32.

Secundária

• Bourgeosie: Black, Jeremy 1995 In John W. Yolton, Roy Porter, Pat Rogers e Barbara Maria Stafford (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment,Oxford, Blackwell: 70.
• Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, the Ecology of Fear: Davis, Mike 1992 Westfield, W.J., Open Magazine Pamphlets.
• Lifestyle and Consumer Culture: Featherstone, Mike 1987 Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 4, 1: 55-70.
• Spaces of Hope: Harvey, David 2000 Edimburgo, Edinburgh University Press.
• The Invention of Tradition: Hobsbawm, Eric e Ranger 1983 Terence (eds.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• The Imagined Space: Nostalgia for Kampungs: Huat, Chua Beng 1995 In Brenda Yeoh e Lily Kong (eds.), Portraits of Places: History, Community and Identity in Singapore, Singapura, Times Editions.
• The Centrality of the Eye in Western Culture: Jenks, Chris 1995 in Chris Jenks (ed.), Visual Culture, Londres e Nova Iorque, Routledge: 1-25.
• Buildings and Society: Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment: King, Anthony D. (ed.) 1980 Londres, Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21St-Century: King, Anthony D. (ed.) 1996 Metropolis, Nova Iorque, New York University Press.
• The Concepts of Culture and of Social System: Kroeber, A.L. e Talcott Parsons 1958 American Sociological Review, vol. 23: 582-583.
• Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy: Kumar, Krishan e Jeff Weintraub (eds.) 1197 Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
• Nostalgia tells it like it wasn't: Lowenthal, David 1989 In Christopher Shaw e Malcom Chase (eds.), The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia, Manchester e Nova Iorque, Manchester University Press: 18-32.
• Landscape and Power: Mitchell, W. J. Thomas (ed.) 1994 Chicago e Londres, The University of Chicago Press.\
• Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society: Williams, Raymond 1983 Londres, Fontana Press.
• The Country and the City, Londres: Williams, Raymond 1993 The Hogarth Press.

Disciplinas de Execução

2021/2022 - 2 Semestre

2018/2019 - 2 Semestre

2019/2020 - 2 Semestre

2020/2021 - 2 Semestre