Currículo

Political Sociology SP-E

Contextos

Groupo: Matemática Aplicada à Economia e à Gestão > 1º Ciclo > Unidades Curriculares Optativas

ECTS

4.0 (para cálculo da média)

Objectivos

Discussion of the specificity of political approach to social realities: political sociology as a 'certain perspective' on society. Presentation of the main currents of political philosophy configuring modernity: theories and doctrines; intended consequences and unforeseen effects. Exposition of the main groups of problems characterizing contemporary political science, making explicit their background assumptions via the confrontation of various conflictive doctrinal currents.

Programa

- What is politics? What is the possible content of a science of political realities?; - Contractarian ideas and its opponents in the origins of contemporary political thought; - Republic, citizenship, rule of law, democracy, separation of powers: a critical approach aiming at identifying problematic zones behind the apparently obvious assumptions; - Left and right: does all politics need cleavages? Are these always officially 'ideological'?; - Political parties and electoral systems: the justifying doctrines and the history of facts; - Theories of justice as a relevant interface of economic and political theories; - Post-cold-war panorama: the 'ends of history' and the 'clash of civilizations', globalization and nationalisms, racism, identity-politics and fundamentalisms; - In what consists 'political development'? Possibilities and limits of a question.

Método de Avaliação

The final grade, in a scale of 0-20, is attributed based on a written exam and/or a written report plus discussion. Participation in classes during the semester is also taken into consideration. The usual intervention of students in classes is permanently promoted, these being usually taught in the manner of seminars.

Carga Horária

Carga Horária de Contacto -

Trabalho Autónomo - 68.0

Carga Total -

Bibliografia

Principal

Manual de Sociologia Política: GRAÇA, João Carlos 2018 Coimbra, Almedina
Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy: LOSURDO, Domenico 2022 London, Verso
Democracy in Europe: A History of an Ideology: CANFORA, Luciano 2006 London, Verso
Nations and Nationalism: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism: ANDERSON, Benedict 1991 London, Verso
Le Développement Politique: BADIE, Bertrand 1988 Paris, Economica
Against the Current - Essays in the History of Ideas: BERLIN, Isaiah 1980 London, The Hogarth Press
The Rhetoric of Reaction: HIRSCHMAN, Albert Otto 1991 London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
The Concept of the Political, Chicago: SCHMITT, Carl 1996 Chicago University Press
The Political Parties: DUVERGER, Maurice 1950 Hoboken, USA, John Wiley & Sons
As Democracias Contemporâneas: LIJPHART, Arend 1989 Lisboa, Gradiva
Qu'est-ce qu'une Société Juste?, Introduction à la Pratique de la Philosophie Politique: PARIJS, Philippe van 1991 Paris, Éditions du Seuil