2025
Sociology of Culture
Name: Sociology of Culture
Code: SOC02420L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Sociology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Knowledge of the various forms of production and perception of culture; Knowledge of broadcast devices and
interpretation of culture; Clipping capabilities of the models and procedures of access to culture; cultural
investment policies and transformations involved in the integration of new technologies.
interpretation of culture; Clipping capabilities of the models and procedures of access to culture; cultural
investment policies and transformations involved in the integration of new technologies.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The evolution of the concept of Culture
Culture and Civilization
The illuminist matrix and the emergence of the civilizational process
The Romanticism as compensation of the civilizational universalism
The need for a Soc. of Culture
Epistemological characterization of a Soc. of Culture
CULTURE AS A PROBLEM
How to discuss Culture
Modernity as a critical horizon of Culture
The current analytical ways as critique of Culture
Possibilities of representation of experience
Esthetization as logic of Culture
THE MEDIA AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURE
Technical input on culture -W. Benjamin
The spectacle -G. Debord
The critique of culture -Adorno
The mediations -McLuhan, Debray
Mediation and human action -Agamben
Technique, connections and links -B. de Miranda
Culture according to post-modern ways
CYBERCULTURE
The ambiguity of virtual space
Time, speed and immediacy
Topological changes
The technologization of memory
New technological arts
The Internet, globalization and Government control
The evolution of the concept of Culture
Culture and Civilization
The illuminist matrix and the emergence of the civilizational process
The Romanticism as compensation of the civilizational universalism
The need for a Soc. of Culture
Epistemological characterization of a Soc. of Culture
CULTURE AS A PROBLEM
How to discuss Culture
Modernity as a critical horizon of Culture
The current analytical ways as critique of Culture
Possibilities of representation of experience
Esthetization as logic of Culture
THE MEDIA AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURE
Technical input on culture -W. Benjamin
The spectacle -G. Debord
The critique of culture -Adorno
The mediations -McLuhan, Debray
Mediation and human action -Agamben
Technique, connections and links -B. de Miranda
Culture according to post-modern ways
CYBERCULTURE
The ambiguity of virtual space
Time, speed and immediacy
Topological changes
The technologization of memory
New technological arts
The Internet, globalization and Government control
Teaching Methods
Timing of learning tasks; assessment forms explained; presentation of video and ppt teaching aids; presentation
of the most problematic topics; Discussion and clarification of doubts; monitoring of the contents integration and preparation for evaluations. Face-to-face assessment out of the students work and interventions.
of the most problematic topics; Discussion and clarification of doubts; monitoring of the contents integration and preparation for evaluations. Face-to-face assessment out of the students work and interventions.
Assessment
Continuous Assessment, including individual work, creation of a subject dossier; Attendances (2 - 50+50%) and direct (oral) assessment based on attendance and level of participation in class.Final exam 100%.
Teaching Staff
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