2025
Health, Society and Risk
Name: Health, Society and Risk
Code: SOC10907D
8 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/224 hours
Scientific Area:
Sociologia e Ciências Sociais
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objectives:
- To acquire a basis for solid sociological reflection, consistent and updated about main debates that nowadays crosslink health, social care and society;
- Develop competences for analytical and critical operationalization about health and social care issues;
- To understand the conceptual importance of risk in the current framework of society? medicalization and ?healthization?.
Competences:
- Characterizes and explains the medicalization and biomedicalization of everyday life in society;
- Knows and discusses the underlying contours of healthization in society;
- Knows and discusses current risk conceptualizations and uncertainty in health;
- Understand the main features of the debate on social care, both from the macro social point of view and the micro social point of view.
- Recognizes the importance of critical sociology about health technologies, continuous and palliative care
- To acquire a basis for solid sociological reflection, consistent and updated about main debates that nowadays crosslink health, social care and society;
- Develop competences for analytical and critical operationalization about health and social care issues;
- To understand the conceptual importance of risk in the current framework of society? medicalization and ?healthization?.
Competences:
- Characterizes and explains the medicalization and biomedicalization of everyday life in society;
- Knows and discusses the underlying contours of healthization in society;
- Knows and discusses current risk conceptualizations and uncertainty in health;
- Understand the main features of the debate on social care, both from the macro social point of view and the micro social point of view.
- Recognizes the importance of critical sociology about health technologies, continuous and palliative care
Contents
1. Health, risk and lifestyles
2. Healthization
3. Biomedicalization of everyday life
4. Popular rationalities and health
5. Social care: themes and perspectives
6. Continuous and palliative care
7. Health technology assessment
8. Cases studies
2. Healthization
3. Biomedicalization of everyday life
4. Popular rationalities and health
5. Social care: themes and perspectives
6. Continuous and palliative care
7. Health technology assessment
8. Cases studies
Teaching Methods
a) Teaching methodologies:
Unit to be taught by theoretical-seminar sessions, classroom-based.
Tutorial sessions and self-study in accordance with Bologna Process recommendations.
For contact hours with the teacher and the teaching / learning will be organized in classes, essentially theoretical and seminarial.
In addition to the content teaching exhibition by the teacher, classes also count with students participation, individually or in small groups, and based on previously distributed resources or gathered through self-study.
b) Continuous Evaluation and by final exam:
- summary of the assigned readings (1) (critical issues)
- Working paper (1) (a standard journal article based on existing data or readings materials)
Unit to be taught by theoretical-seminar sessions, classroom-based.
Tutorial sessions and self-study in accordance with Bologna Process recommendations.
For contact hours with the teacher and the teaching / learning will be organized in classes, essentially theoretical and seminarial.
In addition to the content teaching exhibition by the teacher, classes also count with students participation, individually or in small groups, and based on previously distributed resources or gathered through self-study.
b) Continuous Evaluation and by final exam:
- summary of the assigned readings (1) (critical issues)
- Working paper (1) (a standard journal article based on existing data or readings materials)
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