3 credits
This course is based on an analysis of the basic notions and concepts necessary for any approach or field of study and sociological research. It notes, therefore, differences between concepts "encompassed" and concepts of "inclusivity", in order to cover external phenomena/internal to corporations. It addresses notions and concepts such as: culture, civilization, collective belief, modernity, habitus, norm, compliance, status and role, value, socialization, classes and social elite, etc. It develops in students a critical perspective in its comprehension of all social reality. After the course, the students will have gained an inductive construction of the concepts discussed and a mode of sociological thinking.
3 credits
This course is mainly based on an analytical explanation of the notional and conceptual fields used in social intervention; linking them to their different social and institutional uses as well as current social issues. It thus addresses several encompassing and encompassed notions and concepts including: planning, environment and space, individual, collective, social, societal, cultural, structural, intercultural, sociocultural, community, etc., social pathology and therapy, social profitability, social development, underdevelopment, sustainable development, social change, partnership, co-operation, marginalization, social inclusion, awareness, commitment, citizenship, etc.
3 credits
This course enables students to understand the components of social intervention action on various sociocultural, socioeducational, sociopolitical, socioreligious, and socioeconomic plans related to community spaces, institutions and associations, through critically conscious, preventive and participant practices. Similarly, it aims to foster knowledge of cultural, sociosportive and municipal structures. Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to identify the fields and practices of social intervention, to understand the issues related to the aforementioned fields and to think strategically as regards the levels of corresponding action.
3 credits
This course deals with the family in its various forms, which, while being universal, presents spatiotemporal peculiarities that the sociological analysis reveal, both structurally and functionally. The course offers a reflection on the circumstances and the contemporary transformations of the family institution (diversity of models, fragility of the marital bond, family recomposition), and draws a picture of sociological theories of the family, focusing on contemporary sociology specific to this area. Thus, the family, in new forms, appears as an element of sustainability among social turbulence, and as one of the pillars of postmodernism to study. It is therefore necessary to highlight the multiple varied relationships that link the family to the whole of society, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the family in Lebanon.
3 credits
This course provides students with the basic knowledge essential to a survey in the service of a search. For this purpose, a knowledge of all stages of an investigation, of the preparation (setting objectives, questionnaire design, and choice of sampling method) is required to collect data and prepare them up to the analysis and presentation of results. Students will also learn to use SPSS for compiling the data and the analysis of results.
3 credits
In a first step, students will develop their comprehension skills and ability to analyze the groups and their typology through the theoretical foundations of the group in general. In a second step, they can distinguish the different levels of action and social intervention strategies with regard to different groups. Particular attention will be paid to the articulation of groups- societal environment relations and transformations affecting the main partners involved. In a third step, students are called to target the understanding of the characteristics of the crowd and the mass, and the components of events in the midst of a large audience.