Sociology

Summary of Disciplines

CODE Course - (number of class hours) Number of credits - Pre-requisite Where: CODE - is the course's code; Course - is the course's name; (number of class hours) - is the distribution of class hours (Lecture classes - Exercise classes - Laboratory classes); Number of credits - is the course's number of credits; Pre-requisites - are the courses that must be taken prior to registering at this course Example: ART 1023 Geometric Drawing I - (2-0-2) 4 - ART 1022 CODE - ART 1023; Course - Geometric Drawing I; (number of class hours) - Lecture classes: 2; Exercise classes: 0; Laboratory classes: 2; Number of credits - 4; Pre-requisites -ART 1022

SOC 1101 Sociological Adventure - (Sociology I) - (4-0-0) 4
The European thought and the Era of Enlightenment. Enlightenment and the foundations of sociological knowledge. Rationality as epistemological foundation of Sociology. The formation of Sociology as academic discipline: Marx, Weber and Durkheim.

SOC 1102 Sociology II - (Social Structure and Social Change) - (4-0-0) 4
The notions of social organization and of social structure. Discussion of some themes on social structure: system, sub-system and functions; relationships between different social dimensions; reconstructed totality. Social change, evolution and social transformation. Factors of social change: disorder and social problems, conflicts, hegemonic processes. Breakdown and revolution.

SOC1103 Marx and Weber - (4-0-0) 4
Two visions of the modernity of Nineteenth Century. Presentation of a global vision of Karl Marx and Max Weber's contributions to Sociology from their main works. Marx and the critical theory of society. Weber and his study between reason and passion. A comparison between these thinkers focusing on the similarities and the existent differences between them.

SOC1104 Tocqueville and Durkheim - (4-0-0) 4
Freedom and social order. The intellectual development of Alexis de Tocqueville and of Emile Durkheim as seen through its texts, trying to recover the sense of the original intention of each writer in order to establish a dialogue between them.

SOC 1105 French Sociology of the Twentieth Century - (4-0-0) 4
Bourdieu: concepts of field, symbolic capital, reproduction and "habitus". Baudrillard: the daily life, the system of the objects, the symbolic changes, the simulacrum. Touraine: social system, action, social movements, social actor.

SOC 1106 German Sociology - (4-0-0) 4
The School of Frankfurt and its successors. Critical theory: the dialectics of the iluminist reason and the critique of science. The double face of culture and the discussion of cultural industry. The issue of State and its forms of legitimation.

SOC1109 Brazilian Sociological Thought - (4-0-0) 4
Science and society in Brazil. Sociological thought on the Brazilian crisis. Science and conscience. Social reality and sociological problems. Theory and research. Conjuncture and sociological thought. The historical development of Sociology in Brazil. The Sociology of Latin America. Imperialism and scientific dependence. Gilberto Freyre and his contribution for sociological thought. The sociological thought since 1930. The critical Sociology. The school of São Paulo and the modern interpretations of Brazil. Methodological subjects. Sociology and ideology. The sociologist and the modern industrial society.

SOC 1113 American Sociology and Functionalism - (4-0-0) 4
Parsons, Merton and Gouldner. General system of action. Action, system and interpretation of systems. The symbolic ways of interchange. The functional-structuralism and the central dilemmas of social theory.

SOC 1114 Sociology of Art - (4-0-0) 4
Art as knowledge. The sociology of art as a form of reflexion on art and society. The sociological theories of art: the precursors, the classic phase, the contemporary schools.

SOC 1119 Sociology of Environment - (4-0-0) 4
Humanity and natural environment. The relationship humanity-nature through history. Ecology: its origins and concept. The development of ecological thought. Political ecology. Ecology and urban-industrial civilization. Development and environmental protection: sustainable development. Ecological movement and other social movements.The issue of environmental conflict in the private use of public resources.

SOC 1121 Sociology of Literature - (4-0-0) 4
Literature as social phenomenon. Production, circulation and reception of literary texts. The relationship between literary structure and social structure. Sociological theories of literature.

SOC 1124 Rural Social Movements - (4-0-0) 4
The rural context while a historical setting for social movements. Critical reflection on the contrast of the rural and the urban experiences. Struggle forms and its contradictions. Messianic movements. Struggles for land. Rural strikes. Relationships between the Church, the civil society and the State. Citizenship and justice. Social movements and ecology.

SOC 1125 Sociology of Family in Brazil - 4 (4-0-0)
The social construction of the modern family unit. The colonial context of the Brazilian family. The processes of industrialization and urbanization of society and its impact on the nuclear family. The paradoxical coexistence of modern and traditional influences in the Brazilian family.

SOC 1126 Urban Social Movements - 4 (4-0-0)
The urban setting as an object of study for the social sciences. Many different theoretical approaches. Latin American and Brazilian urbanization. Urbanization and industrialization processes. The internal migrations. Urbanization and public policy. Urban planning. Urban social movements. Violence as an issue. Urban marginalization. Brazilian urban structures. Brazilian cities today.

SOC 1127 Sociology and Communication - (4-0-0) 4
Concepts of industrialization and urbanization. Understandings of development and underdevelopment. The influence of communication media on development and underdevelopment. Industrial society and cultural industry. The ideology of industrial societies. Mythology and ritual in industrial societies. Mass culture, leasure and consumption. Reflexion on the Brazilian experience.

SOC 1128 Applied Sociology to Administration - (4-0-0) 4
Theoretical diversity in Sociology and its implications to the theory of organization. The classic sociology of organization: its systematic dimension and its limitations. The bureaucracy as formal organization and its contemporary problems: the concept of technocracy.

SOC 1130 Social Movements - (4-0-0) 4
Explanatory models for the movements of collectivization. Analysis of the social movements in Brazilian and Latin American society. The historical perspective: the Old Republic, the New State, the Populist period, the military governments. The present time: the parties, the unions and the power of State. Blacks as a people in Brazilian society, a historical approach. The Black movement and the black conscience: actions and perspective changes. State, capital and work in Brazil: the Brazilian working class. Women in Brazilian social structure: women and work, women and politics, the ideological subject. The cities and the politization of the daily: the residents' movements. The ecological movement.

SOC 1141 Sociology of Law - (4-0-0) 4
Juridical organizations and social structure in Marx. The relationships between the development of capitalist property and the legal institutions. Sociology of Law in Max Weber. Law and type of social solidarity in Durkheim. From status to contract in Maine. Law as symbolism. Law as integrative mechanism.

SOC 1157 Sociology of Daily Life - (4-0-0) 4
The understanding of daily life in some classics of contemporary Sociology (H. Lefebvre, G. Lukács, A. Heller). Sociological analysis of daily life and social conjuncture. Different moments of the daily life: work, leisure.

SOC 1165 Sociology of Knowledge - (4-0-0) 4
Knowledge and its different forms. The specific dimension of sociological knowledge. The sociology of knowledge as analysis of the epistemologic foundations of theory and sociological practice. The classic theories on the sociology of knowledge. The contemporary theories: current state of the subject.

SOC 1165 Sociology of Education - (4-0-0) 4
School as social institution, agent of reproduction of historically produced relationships. Perspectives of the Brazilian thought about education: school and social change - school as factor of development; school as product of development - the democratization of teaching; critical perspectives on the educational system. Analysis of the Brazilian educational system.

SOC 1170 to 1174 Special Seminars in Sociology - (4-0-0) 4

SOC 1175 to 1179 Special Seminars in Sociology - (2-0-0) 2

SOC 1108 to 1195 Reading and Analysis in Sociological Theory - (4-0-0) 4
Monographic study of relevant authors for sociological theory.

SOC 1201 Foundations of Western Political Thought (Political Science I) - (4-0-0) 4
Concepts and issues in political science. The formation of western political thought: Plato, Aristotle, Maquiavel, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Tocqueville. The French Revolution. The conservative reaction: Burke, Bonald and DeMaister. The utilitarianism: Benthan. American political thought: the Federalists, Madison and Jefferson. The liberal democracy: Stuart Mill.

SOC 1202 Liberal Construction and its Critics - (4-0-0) 4
Bourgeois order and liberal thought. Liberalism and democracy. Conservative liberalism. Contemporary liberalism. The Marxist critic. Marx and the Marxisms. The elite critique: Pareto, Mosca and Michels.

SOC 1203 Brazilian Political Institutions - (4-0-0) 4
Basic concepts: power, public institution, political institution, State (centralization vs. decentralization, strenght vs. weakness). The formation of the National State: the Marxist perspective and the weberian perspective. Oligarchical State and the ideology of development. The formation of the Brazilian National State. Colonialism, dependence, populism and "coronelismo". Armed forces, syndicalism, political parties, etc.

SOC 1204 Public and Private: Mediation of Interests - (4-0-0) 4
State as bureaucratic organization. The autonomy and specificity of the state action. Civil society: forms and actors of the political action, classes, groups and parties. Mediation of interests: corporatism and "clientelismo".

SOC 1209 Brazilian Political Thought - (4-0-0) 4
Political thought in Brazil. Foundation Utopias of liberal theories: Positivists, Marxists, Populists and Authoritarians. Political and institutional debate in Brazilian history. Contemporary visions of Brazilian political theory: political cientists and the university and the academic milieu.

SOC 1211 Brazilian Political Model - (4-0-0) 4
Conservative modernization: political exclusion and concentration of income. Late, peripheral and dependent capitalism in contemporary Brazil. "Clientelismo", corporatism and populism. Inflation, foreign and intern debt. The formation of the authoritarian conjunctures and the search of a democratic order, the juridical-institutional order.

SOC 1212 The Logic of Crisis - (4-0-0) 4
The formation of national public institutions according to the paradigm of conflict. The crisis as resulting from conflicting forces. Competition, conflict, consent and crisis. Political, economic and social institutions. Complicity and conflict: the public in the Brazilian political order. Federalism ("Estatismo"), nationalism, privatization ("Privatismo") and internationalism. The agent and the system. The collapse of populism, the military governments and the reconstruction of the "democratic" order.

SOC 1213 Woman and Society (Woman and Political Participation) - (4-0-0) 4
The historical development of science in relation to the women's social position. The political implications of the feminist movement and its contribution to the theoretical and methodological revision of women position in society. Sexual discrimination and the struggle for equality of rights and complete exercise of citizenship for women. The women's participation in the national political life of Brazil: Executive and Legislative.

SOC 1214 Construction of Citizenship - (4-0-0) 4
Concepts of citizenship in democratic theory. Theories of action in the study of contemporary social and associative movements. The emergence of political identities through the development of collective identities, privileging recent experiences of Brazil. Worker and peasant movements, syndicalism, ecological movement; movements of squatters, of residents, of blacks, of women, of indigenous peoples, of students. Historical forms of collective action and the contradictions of political participation. Dialogues between the State, the political parties and other social organizations. Processes of institutionalizing movements of collectivization. Interaction between forms of collective action and political culture.

SOC 1218 Political Parties, Elections and Governments - (4-0-0) 4
Direct democracy and representative democracy. The concept of political representation. Theories of political representation in modern political thought. Representation; parties and elections. Political parties, organization and ideology. Party systems: structural elements, dynamics and socio-economic factors. The origins of political representation and majority and proportional electoral systems. Political consequences of electoral laws. The theory of the separation of powers; organization of the State: federation, confederation and unitary state; parliamentary and presidential governmental systems.

SOC 1223 Political Parties and Elections in Brazil - (4-0-0) 4
Party and electoral systems in Brazil. Political representation and political dominance. The history of the Brazilian experience with parties and elections. Electoral systems and parties along the Empire period. The electoral dominance in the First Republic. Party system and political representation during the regime of 1946. The authoritarian cycle: the party-electoral logic and the erosion of the regime. Recent outline of the party system in Brazil. The political reforms in Brazil.

SOC 1227 Contemporary Political Theories - (4-0-0) 4
Political theories in Twentieth Century. The real world of the politics and the parliamentary dynamics: Weber and Schmitt. Democratic theory and political realism. Democracy as method and descriptive democratic theory: Schumpeter and Dahl. Configuration of the contemporary order and its dilemmas. Democracy and societal pluralism: Lijphart. The limits of realism and the utopian shade.

SOC 1230 to 1237 Reading and Analysis in Political Theory - (4-0-0) 4
Monographic study of relevant authors for political theory.

SOC 1239 Bureaucracy in Modern State - (4-0-0) 4
Bureaucracy as the dominant social institution in the contemporary world. Classic and modern theories of the development of bureaucracies. The bureaucratic authority as political factor. Dysfunctions and bureaucratic transformation; bureaucracy and democracy.

SOC 1240 Poverty, Public Institutions and Political Competition in Brazil - (4-0-0) 4
The origins of poverty and of concentration of income in Brazil. Scarce resources and political competition. Conflict and instability in the strategic institutions of the national public system. The social State of Brazil. The poverty concept and misery. Ways to measure, to identify and to define the poverty in contemporary Brazil. External and internal causes. The reproduction of the model. The political consequences of the unequitable distribution of income. The instability of the national public system.

SOC 1241 International Relationships - (4-0-0) 4
Systems of International Relationships in Twentieth Century: contradictions and crisis. Bipolarity and multipolarity. The arms race and the strategic confrontation in the nuclear age. Disarmament. International organizations and the functioning of the world order. Regional organizations and the articulation of regional interests. International cooperation - the North-South dialogue. Brazil in the global scene. Brazilian foreign policy.

SOC 1242 Public Politics in Brazil - (4-0-0) 4
Concepts of State and of public politics. Aggravation of the economic and social crisis in contemporary Brazilian society. Problems of ungovernability. The obsolescence State organizations and the pressures of neo-liberalism. Transnational processes and the crisis of political relevance of the nation-state. The formation of governmental decisions and their relationship to the formation of social demands. Governmental and not governmental actions; unique concerns of urban settings and of rural environments in the formulation of the social politics. Formulations and practices of Brazilian public policies in such crucial areas as: health, education, housing, children and youths welfare, distribution of income.

SOC 1243 Democracy and Justice - (4-0-0) 4
The relationships between market and democracy: passions and interests. Economy: rationality of means and ends. Planning, efficiency and political administration of economy. Investments, social control and political autonomy.

SOC 1244 The New International Order - (4-0-0) 4
Definition of international relationships. The international relationships as scientific discipline. War, cold war and bipolarity. Main components in the foreign policy study. The foreign policy in United States. The Soviet foreign policy. New actors in the international scenery.Transnational processes. Crisis of the bipolar system and multipolarity.

SOC 1245 Intellectuals, Politics and Culture in Brazil - (4-0-0) 4
Definition of the concept of intellectual; some of the main analyses on the concept: Mannheim, Gramsci and Bourdieu. The intellectuality as political field (citizenship and culture). The political oscillation of intellectuals. The resignation or the political engagement of intellectuals as object of reflection.The intellectual as object of research for the social sciences. Politics and culture in Brazil.

SOC 1246 Analysis of the Brazilian Political Conjuncture - (4-0-0) 4
The world views and the political and ideological nature of the groups and actors that dispute prominence in the projects of transformation in Brazilian society. Change of behavior, development project, inflationary contention, leadership formation, mass societies, the issue about land, modernization of the state and syndical conflicts; modernization of the social, economic and political structures in Brazil; crisis, recession and development.

SOC 1247 Social Democracy and Social Welfare State - (4-0-0) 4
The formation of the social-democratic parties in Europe; social-democracy and liberalism; social-democracy and socialism; syndical movements and political parties; the social welfare state as economic agent.

SOC 1248 Democracy and Violence - (4-0-0) 4
Authoritarianism, democratization and Law State. Violence of State and human rights; mechanisms of control, of repression and of oppression. Political rationality and violence. Endemic violence; forms of endemic violence; police violence, violence against children and youths, urban criminality, rural violence, survival strategies; socio-political conflicts, reformation and revolution; explanatory hypotheses about the disregard to human rights; politics of public safety; popular alternatives to violence.

SOC 1249 Politics in Rio de Janeiro - (4-0-0) 4
The political, party and ideological reality in the State and in the City of Rio de Janeiro since1945. The main currents and political conflicts in the recent history: "trabalhismo", "lacerdismo", "chaguismo" and "amaralismo". Electoral and party competition in Rio de Janeiro. The geography of vote and the administrative areas.

SOC 1260 Themes of International Politics - (4-0-0) 4
Characteristics of the international politics -internal politics & international politics, the international dimension of power, diplomacy and war, anarchy and international conditions of governing, Globalization process. Many dimensions of the international politics - economic, politic, strategic and cultural. Factors of the international order - scale of power, systems of collective safety, international culture, bipolarity and multipolarity, alliance systems, international legal order, international regimes. Cooperation and international organization.

SOC 1261 Perspectives of Analysis in the International Politics Field - (4-0-0) 4
Traditions of thought about the international relationships. The evolution of the discipline of international relationships. Contemporary theoretical trends. Classic thinkers. Classic reflections and different perspectives on international relationships - war and peace, diplomacy and foreign policy, trade, political regimes and international relationships.

SOC 1262 Foreign Policy of Brazil - (4-0-0) 4
Insertion of Brazil in the international system - historical, political and economic dimensions. History of Brazilian foreign policy. Decisive process and the formation of the Brazilian foreign policy. Traditional Brazilian thought about the position of Brazil in the international scenery. Main axes of the international relationships of Brazil.

SOC 1270 to 1274 Special seminars in Political Science - (4-0-0) 4

SOC 1275 to 1279 Special seminars in Political Science - (2-0-0) 2

SOC 1302 Cultural Anthropology - (4-0-0) 4
Culture as meaningful system. Culture as political expression of the social insertion of the different groups that compose society. Culture and social distance. Importance of the use of the culture concept for the understanding of the relationship among different social groups.

SOC 1305 Theories of Culture - (4-0-0) 4
Trends of the anthropological thought. The polemic between evolutionism and diffusionism: the comparative method, the cultural history and the study of the diffusion. The boasian critic. The School of Culture and Personality. The Functionalism of Malinowski. The American interpretativism and the writing of culture. New perspectives.

SOC 1306 French School and Struturalism - (4-0-0) 4
Trends of the anthropological thought. Representations, concepts and models. The French Sociological School: Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss. The logic of culture. The French Struturalism: Lévi-Strauss and Dumont. New perspectives.

SOC 1307 English Social Anthropology - (4-0-0) 4
Trends of the anthropological thought. Study of the organization of social systems. The structural-functionalism: Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard. The British neo-Structuralism: Leach, Turner and Douglas. New perspectives.

SOC 1308 Fieldwork - (4-0-0) 4
Research traditions in Social Anthropology. The fieldwork: theory and practice. The relationships between subject and object. The construction of the research object, methods and techniques; collection and registration of informations.

SOC 1309 Anthropological Thought in Brazil - (4-0-0) 4
Race, miscegenation and nationality in the turn-of-the-century generation. Silvio Romero, Euclides da Cunha and Nina Rodrigues. The critique to the racial paradigm and the celebration of the mestizo and of the cordial society in the decade of 1930: Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Arthur Ramos. The period of institutionalization of the social sciences: Florestan Fernandes' functionalism, the tradition of community studies, the debate about the relationship between indigenous societies and Brazilian national society. The ethnological tradition in Brazil and the studies of Afro-Brazilian culture.

SOC 1310 Social Organization and Kinship - (4-0-0) 4
Social organization and kinship. Main subjects and concepts. theories of descent, theories of alliance: different theoretical perspectives and its unfoldings. The study of the different kinship systems in Anthropology.

SOC 1311 Racial and interetnic relationships - (4-0-0) 4
Concepts of race, ethnicity and its articulations. Social identity and ethnic identity. The interpretations of the racism and its different approaches. The racistic doctrines. The racism and its practices in the contemporary pluri-racial societies: from segregation to denial. Strategies and policies against racism in United States, in South Africa and in Brazil.

SOC 1318 Folklore and Popular Culture - (4-0-0) 4
Anthropological conception of folklore. Anthropologists and folklorists. The traditional conception: oral knowledge and craft; the ethnographic emphasis and its method. Contemporary tendencies: cultural production and social identity, cultural manifestations while classificatory system and its political dimension. Folklore, popular culture and mass culture.

SOC 1320 Anthropology and Literature - (4-0-0) 4
Semiology and Hermeneutics. Social structure and language structure. Culture as text. The interpretative foundation of fieldwork; the analysis of the etnography as text; the internal relationships of power to the field relationships.

SOC 1321 Visual Anthropology - (4-0-0) 4
Culture as communication. The system of objects. Research method in visual anthropology. The study of corporal techniques in Bali (study-of-case). French Sociological School, Gregory Bateson and the first studies using the picture as research method. The ritualization of the daily.

SOC 1325 Ethnology - (4-0-0) 4
Ethnology and anthropological theory. The tribal culture: the tribal outline, leaderships and segmentary tribes. Tribal economy: work, technology, property, production. Family as social order. The dualism; the temporality; cognition and symbolism; relationships among nature, society and cosmology. Indians and Brazilians: etnic groups in confront. The State and the indigenous subject. The Brazilian indigenist politics.

SOC 1326 Relationships of Gender - (4-0-0) 4
Women, nature and culture. The gender differentiation and the sexual division of work. Individualism and feminism. The separation between the public and the private dimentions and its effects. Family and gender identity. The perspective of the politization of the personal dimention and the notion of fraternity among women. Classes, race and gender. Feminism as social movement. New perspectives.

SOC 1327 Anthropology and Psychology - (4-0-0) 4
Culture, personality and mental disease. The ethnopsychiaty. The body and the cultural symbolism. Concepts of social identity and of person. Accusations and total institutions in the constitution of the deviation notions and of mental diseases in modern society. The psychological therapies and the constitution of modern individual.

SOC 1328 Anthropology of Art - (4-0-0) 4
Art in tribal societies. Art and culture. Mythology and folklore. Structure and performance in ethnomusicology. The artist in modern society and the emergency of the
modern artist. Eliteculture, popular culture and mass culture in industrial societies. Architecture and cultural taste.

SOC 1329 Anthropology of Law - (4-0-0) 4
Crime, habit and justice in tribal societies. Ritual, conflicts and social cohesion in the societies without State. The construction of the culture of juridical sensibility in modern societies. Ethnographic studies on judiciary systems in different societies. Violence and justice in Brazilian society.

SOC 1334 Anthropology of Complex Societies - (4-0-0) 4
The conceptual opposition between the concepts of complex society and of simple society Social Anthropology. Problems and perspectives of the field research in urban settings. Urbanization, social definition of the space, and the cultural dinamics of modern society. Holism and individualism in diferent complex societies. Culture, ritual and national societies. Relevant issues in the anthropological study of the complex societies.

SOC 1335 Anthropology and History - (4-0-0) 4
The debate in the classic anthropology around the relevance of the historical explanation in the interpretation of the anthropological fact. Myth and historicity in the constitution of the social past. Structure and event in the study of social change. Approach and dialogues between anthropology and history of the mentalities ("mentalités"). New perspectives.

SOC 1336 Anthropology of Religion - (4-0-0) 4
Religion as representation system and as cultural system. Magic, sect and religion. Relationship between the religious domain and other domains of social life. The concept of religious field as instrument of analysis of the different existent faiths in a society. The so called popular religions: theAfrican cults, the popular Catholicism, the Pentecostalism.

SOC 1337 Economic Anthropology - (4-0-0) 4
Classic discussions in the economic Anthropology of primitive people: the formalistic and the substantivistic approaches; the neo-Marxist critique. The specificity of the different economic systems historically structured and its articulation with the corresponding societies. The Funcionalist, Structuralist and Marxist approaches. Theories about economic and social transformation in contemporary world. Economic anthropology and interdisciplinary social action.

SOC 1338 Political Anthropology - (4-0-0) 4
The object of political Anthropology. Analysis of the power relationship. Political systems and political processes. Sacred power and profane power. Power and social identity: symbols, rites and myths. Groups, factions, forms and mobilization strategies and formal and informal articulations of different segments of society.

SOC 1342 Culture and Communication - (4-0-0) 4
Culture as comunication system. Mythology and ritual in industrial society. Elite culture and popular culture. Culture and ideology. Mass culture, leisure and consumption.

SOC 1370 to 1357 Reading and Analysis in Anthropological Theory - (4-0-0) 4
Monographic study of relevant authors for Anthropological Theory.

SOC 1370 to 1374 Special Seminars in Anthropology - (4-0-0) 4

SOC 1375 to 1379 Special Seminars in Anthropology - (2-0-0) 2

SOC 1401 Demography - (4-0-0) 4
Science of population. Definition and relevance of the science of population. Basic concepts of the demographic analysis. Mortality, birth rate and fecundity. The populacional dynamic as historical and social process of the reproduction of population. Economic development and populacional dynamic. Demographic politicies - the control of the birth rate.

SOC 1504 Methodology of the Social Sciences - (3-0-0) 3
The knowledge: representation and reflection. Construction of the subject and of the object of knowledge. Theory and practice: the praxis concept. The modern rationalism and the notion of method. The construction of science: the positive dimention of the knowledge and of the reality. Science, ideology and knowledge. Social sciences and social thought. The relationship between theory and method. Historicity of the theory, of the concept and of the method.

SOC 1505 Methods and Techniques of Research I - (3-0-0) 3
Notions of theory of probabilities: usefulness for statistical inference: objectives. Sampling: sample and population; representativity of the sample; the use of the sampling in social research; main sampling plans. Estimation: objectives; basic concepts. Contingence analysis. Correlation and causality. Discussion of the use of quantitative models in Social Sciences.

SOC 1506 Methods and Techniques of Research II - (3-0-0) 3
Especificity of the qualitative treatment of a research project. The case study: theoretical hypotheses and its relation to the research strategy. The collection of information and the construction of the data: participant observation, oral history and documents. Analysis and presentation of the results of the research.

SOC 1507 Statistics for the Social Sciences - (3-0-0) 3
Historical development, objectives. Statistics and social researches. Sources of data in Brazil. Descriptive statistics: objectives, statistical series, graphic representations and tables, measures of central tendency, dispersion and asymmetry. Bi-variated analysis: concept of correlation table of two variables. Introduction to the theory of probability: concepts of probability and aleatory variable; propability distributions. Sample and population: simple aleatory sampling. Numbers and indexes. Mensuration scales.

SOC 1514 Monograph I - (3-0-0) 3

SOC 1515 Monograph II - (3-0-0) 3

SOC 1570 to 1574 Special Seminars in Methodology - (4-0-0) 4

SOC 1575 to 1579 Special Seminars in Methodology - (2-0-0) 2

SOC 1580 Special Seminars in Quantitative Methods of Research - (4-0-0) 4