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Module 1. Classical Sociological Theory

1.1. Auguste Comte

1.1.1. The Deep Ambitions of Auguste Comte
1.1.2. The Sociology of Auguste Comte
1.1.3. Theory and Practice
1.1.4. Auguste Comte's Legacy

1.2. Herbert Spencer

1.2.1. Evolutionism and Social Organicism
1.2.2. The Evolution of Social Institutions
1.2.3. Ethics and Politics

1.3. Karl Marx

1.3.1. Dialectics
1.3.2. The Human Potential
1.3.3. The Concept of Alienation
1.3.4. Structures of Capitalist Society
1.3.5. Cultural Aspects of Capitalist Society

1.4. Emile Durkheim

1.4.1. Methodology. Social Facts and Rules of Method
1.4.2. The Problem of Social Order
1.4.3. The Division of Labor. The Study of Suicide and the Sociology of Religion
1.4.4. Social Reformism. The Actor in Durkheim's Thought

1.5. Max Weber

1.5.1. Methodology
1.5.2. History and Sociology
1.5.3. Causality, Ideal Types and Values

1.6. Georg Simmel

1.6.1. Major Concerns
1.6.2. Social Interaction
1.6.3. Social Structures
1.6.4. The Philosophy of Money and the Sociology of Secrecy

1.7. George Herbert Mead

1.7.1. The Priority of the Social
1.7.2. The Act and the Significant Symbols 
1.7.3. Mental Processes and Thinking
1.7.4. Spirit, Person and Society

1.8. Alfred Schütz

1.8.1. Science and the Social World
1.8.2. The World of Life
1.8.3. Spheres of the Social World
1.8.4. Consciousness, Meanings and Motives

1.9. Hannah Arendt

1.9.1. Concepts of Power, Violence and Domination
1.9.2. Idea of Totalitarianism
1.9.3. Pluralism

1.10. Erving Goffman

1.10.1. Theory of Social Action
1.10.2. Dramaturgical Model
1.10.3. Symbolic Interactionism

Module 2.  Contemporary Sociological Theory

2.1. Structural Functionalism and Neo-Functionalism

2.1.1. Talcott Parsons
2.1.2. Merton
2.1.3. Conflict Theory

2.2. Varieties of the Neo-Marxian Theory

2.2.1. Economic Determinism
2.2.2. Critical Theory
2.2.3. Post-Marxist Theory

2.3. Systems Theory

2.3.1. Theory Advantages
2.3.2. General Principles
2.3.3. Applications in the Social World

2.4. Symbolic Interactionism

2.4.1. Pragmatism
2.4.2. Behaviorism
2.4.3. Criticism

2.5. Theory of Exchange and Rational Choice

2.5.1. Social Psychology of Groups
2.5.2. Rational Choice Theory
2.5.3. Richard Emerson and his Disciples

2.6. Contemporary Feminist Theory

2.6.1. Feminism Since 1960-Present
2.6.2. Varieties of Contemporary Feminist Theory
2.6.3. Sociology of Feminist Knowledge

2.7. Micro-Macro Integration

2.7.1. Micro-Macro Extremism
2.7.2. Integrated Sociological Paradigm
2.7.3. Subjective Levels of Analysis

2.8. Contemporary Theories of Modernity

2.8.1. Classical Theorists of Modernity
2.8.2. Modernity and its Consequences
2.8.3. Modernity and Identity

2.9. The Macdonalization of Society

2.9.1. New Media and Consumption Patterns
2.9.2. Globalization

2.10. Ethnomethodology

2.10.1. Definitions
2.10.2. Diversification
2.10.3. Conversational Analysis

Module 3. Social Structure in Contemporary Societies

3.1. Social Structure, Inequality and Social Stratification

3.1.1. Social Structures
3.1.2. Visions of the Social Structure
3.1.3. Social Inequalities
3.1.4. Sources of Inequality

3.2. Sociological View of Inequality

3.2.1. Social Stratification
3.2.2. Class, Status and Power
3.2.3. Theories of Stratification

3.3. Stratification in Human Societies

3.3.1. Stratification Systems
3.3.2. Primitive Societies: Slavery, Caste, Estates
3.3.3. Industrial Society: Class

3.4. Social Class in Contemporary Societies

3.4.1. Definitions and Outlines
3.4.2. Models of Capitalism
3.4.3. Deindustrialization

3.5. Economic Inequalities

3.5.1. Concepts, Measurement and Unit of Analysis
3.5.2. Inequality Indicators
3.5.3. Distributive Role of the States

3.6.  Poverty, Deprivation and Social Exclusion

3.6.1. Concepts
3.6.2. Poverty in Developed Societies
3.6.3. Relationship Between Inequality and Poverty

3.7. Social Mobility

3.7.1. Concept and Types
3.7.2. Theories of Social Mobility
3.7.3. Taxes

3.8. Consequences of Social Inequality

3.8.1. Class and Status Effects
3.8.2. Social Class and Unemployment
3.8.3. Class and Migration

3.9. Crisis Management

3.9.1. Neoliberalism
3.9.2. Capital/Labor Changes
3.9.3. Changes in Culture

3.10. Historical and Contemporary Globalization

3.10.1. Dimensions of Globalization
3.10.2. Capitalism
3.10.3. A World in Transition

Module 4. Sociological Analysis from a Gender Perspective

4.1. The Sex-Gender System

4.1.1. Gender as an Analytical Category
4.1.2. Gender as a Basic Organizing Principle of Societies
4.1.3. Associated Concepts (Sexism, Patriarchy, Androcentrism, Production-Reproduction, Work-Employment, etc.)
4.1.4. Intersectionality

4.2. Socialization and Gender Roles

4.2.1. Differentiated Socialization of Men and Women
4.2.2. The School. Language as a Vehicle of Differentiation
4.2.3. The Image of Women in the Media
4.2.4. The Study of Masculinities
4.2.5. The Private Sector and Motherhood
4.2.6. Sexuality as a Vehicle of Inequality

4.3. Paid and Unpaid Work

4.3.1. Sexual Division of Labor
4.3.2. Women's Labor Participation
4.3.3. Care and its Social Value
4.3.4. Uses of Time
4.3.5. Poverty and Social Exclusion

4.4. Gender and Politics

4.4.1. The Participation of Men and Women in Political Life
4.4.2. The Power of Decision-Making and Representation
4.4.3. Equality Policies
4.4.4. Intervention and Evaluation with a Gender Perspective
4.4.5. Gender Mainstreaming
4.4.6. Actions of International Organizations

4.5. Gender-Based Violence against Women

4.5.1. Definition and Keys of Violence
4.5.2. Types of Violence
4.5.3. Causes and Consequences on the Victim
4.5.4. Intervention and Legal Framework

4.6.  State and Citizenship: Women as Political Subjects

4.6.1. Citizenship Rights in Societies
4.6.2. Criticism of the Universality of Citizenship and Democracy Concepts
4.6.3. The Construction of Unequal Citizenship Forms

4.7.  The Sexual Division of Labor

4.7.1. Concept of Work Revisions
4.7.2. Men and Women in the Different Productive Areas
4.7.3. The Labor Market and Gender Inequalities
4.7.4. Male and Female Workplaces

4.8.  New Forms of Social Organization of Work

4.8.1. Labor Relations and Human Capital
4.8.2. Inequalities of Class, Gender, and Ethnicity

4.9. The Construction of Masculinity

4.9.1. New Masculinities
4.9.2. The Role of Men in Caregiving
4.9.3. The Gender Crisis

4.10. Women and Sociology

4.10.1. Main Female Exponents
4.10.2. Bioethics
4.10.3. Other Gender Questions

Module 5. Sociology of Communication

5.1.  Communication

5.1.1. Communication as a Sociological Process
5.1.2. The Object of Sociological Analysis
5.1.3. Research Areas and Strategies

5.2. Mass Communication

5.2.1. Importance of Mass Communication
5.2.2. The Beginnings in the United States and Europe
5.2.3. Current Role of the Mass Media

5.3. The Empirical Analysis of Media Effects

5.3.1. From the Magic Bullet to Limited Effects
5.3.2. Review of the Concept of Effect
5.3.3. Agenda-Setting, Framing, Cultivation Theories and the Spiral of Silence

5.4. The Renewal of the Critical Paradigm

5.4.1. What is the Critical Paradigm?
5.4.2. Cultural Studies
5.4.3. Political-Economic Theory of the Mass Media

5.5. Communication and Political Participation

5.5.1. Background of Political Participation
5.5.2. Media Democracy
5.5.3. Communication for Social Change

5.6. The Media

5.6.1. Media and Socialization
5.6.2. Agents of Socialization
5.6.3. Values and Lifestyles

5.7. Theory of Effects

5.7.1. The Epidermal Model
5.7.2. The "Limited" Effects Model
5.7.3. Persuasive Communication

5.8. Theory of Uses and Gratifications

5.8.1. Relationship Between the Media and the Audience
5.8.2. Social Origins
5.8.3. Needs and Expectations

5.9. Cultural Studies and Contemporary Derivations

5.9.1. Stuart Hall, John Fiske, Nick Couldry and General Lines of Cultural Studies
5.9.2. Postmodernism: Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Michael Foucault
5.9.3. Globalization: Manuel Castells, Arjun Appadurai

5.10. The Information Society

5.10.1. Importance of the Information Society
5.10.2. Palo Alto School
5.10.3. Toronto School: Marshall McLuhan

Module 6. Educational Sociology

6.1. The Sociological Study of Education

6.1.1. The Field of Educational Sociology
6.1.2. The Educational System as a Part of the Global Social Organization
6.1.3. The Social Dimension of Education: Psychology and Didactics

6.2. Education, Socialization and Subjectivation

6.2.1. Primary and Secondary Socialization
6.2.2. Agents of Socialization
6.2.3. School and Socialization
6.2.4. Sociology of the Curriculum

6.3. Social Structure and Social Inequality

6.3.1. Social Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Cultural Diversity
6.3.2. Discrimination and Social Inclusion
6.3.3. The Comprehensive School: Segregation by Levels of Achievement
6.3.4. Social Background and School Performance
6.3.5. Public and Private School

6.4. Social Changes, Gender and Sexuality in Education

6.4.1. Coeducation and Affective-Sex Education
6.4.2. Educational Policies for Equality
6.4.3. Integration of Migrant Students and Equal Opportunities
6.4.4. New Challenges for Multicultural Societies

6.5. Education, Society and Family

6.5.1. Importance of the Family
6.5.2. Cultural and Family Factors
6.5.3. Lifestyle

6.6. School and Community

6.6.1. Family Involvement in Education
6.6.2. The Associationism of Families
6.6.3. The Social Context
6.6.4. Society as a Basic Educational Agent
6.6.5. The Philosophy of the "Educating Cities" Movement
6.6.6. The Educational City Project

6.7. Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence

6.7.1. Sociology of Life Stages and Intergenerational Relationships
6.7.2. Childhood and Adolescence as a Social Construction
6.7.3. The Value of Adolescence According to Culture

6.8. The Teaching Staff

6.8.1. Social Changes
6.8.2. Teachers as a Status Group and Educational Agent
6.8.3. Family vs. Teachers

6.9. Media in Education

6.9.1. Formal Education
6.9.2. Informal Education
6.9.3. Theories of Media Influence

6.10. School Failure

6.10.1. Impact of School Failure
6.10.2. Multicausal Approach
6.10.3. Academic Achievement

Module 7. Sociology of the Family

7.1. Family Analysis

7.1.1. Three Approaches to the Western Family
7.1.2. Sociologies of the Family: North American Sociology
7.1.3. From Family Function to Family Strategies
7.1.4. Sociology of the Family, a Meeting Point between History and Ethnology 

7.2. The History of the Family

7.2.1. The Family and Marriage as Universal Institutions of Human Society
7.2.2. The Great Farming Families and the Domestic Groups of the Old Times
7.2.3. Systems of Filiation, Alliance and Lineage
7.2.4. The Myth of the European Family
7.2.5. From Ancient Times to Modernization

7.3. The Contemporary Family

7.3.1. Kinship Network and Nuclear Family in Today's Society
7.3.2. Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
7.3.3. Romantic Love and Confluent Love
7.3.4. The Family in the Context of Individualization
7.3.5. The Pluralization of the Cohabitation Modes

7.4.  Family Strategies

7.4.1. Human Capital: Education and Reproduction
7.4.2. Profession and Gender
7.4.3. Negotiation Strategies
7.4.4. The State Family: Social Control of the Birth Rate
7.4.5. Changes in Reproductive Patterns

7.5. Living Together

7.5.1. Legal Aspects of Family and Property Law
7.5.2. Domestic Work, a New Frontier for Equality
7.5.3. Work, Unemployment and the Family
7.5.4. Housing and Family

7.6. Socialization Processes in the Family

7.6.1. Gender Roles
7.6.2. Professional Expectations
7.6.3. Areas of Socialization

7.7. The Family as the Hermetic Key to Human Sociability

7.7.1. Importance of Human Sociability
7.7.2. Connaturalness Between the Person and Family
7.7.3. The Hermetic Key of the Family

7.8. Current Types of Families

7.8.1. The Extended and Nuclear Family 
7.8.2. Single-Parent Families
7.8.3. Other Types of Families

7.9. Family Models

7.9.1. Importance of Family Models
7.9.2. The Concept of Cultural Familiarism
7.9.3. Other International Family Models

7.10.  Transformation of Intimacy, Sexuality and Love in Modern Societies

7.10.1. Love in Modern Societies
7.10.2. Types of Love: Passionate Love, Romantic Love and Confluent Love
7.10.3. The Family in the Context of Individualization

Module 8. Sociology of Culture

8.1. Culture and society

8.1.1. Concept of Culture
8.1.2. Importance of Culture in Society
8.1.3. Frameworks of Cultural Thinking

8.2. Humanistic Perspectives

8.2.1. Frankfurt School
8.2.2. Cultural Studies
8.2.3. Pierre Bordieu

8.3. Culture in Social Sciences

8.3.1. Origins
8.3.2. Evolution
8.3.3. Expansion

8.4. The Concept of Civilization

8.4.1. Social Conception of Civilization
8.4.2. Norbert Elías
8.4.3. The Process of Globalization

8.5. Sociology of Art

8.5.1. Conception and Importance of Art
8.5.2. Relationship Art-Society
8.5.3. The Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art

8.6. The Cultural Industry

8.6.1. Importance and Background
8.6.2. Cultural Practices in the World
8.6.3. Mass Culture

8.7. Ideologies

8.7.1. Speeches
8.7.2. Beliefs
8.7.3. Cultural Component

8.8. Sociological Perspectives on Culture

8.8.1. Functionalist Perspective
8.8.2. Conflict Perspective
8.8.3. Interactionist Perspective

8.9. Current Cultural Trends

8.9.1. Changes in Culture Scenarios
8.9.2. Culture and Globalization: Conflict and Dialogue
8.9.3. Democratization of Culture

8.10. Digital Culture

8.10.1. Mass Culture
8.10.2. Cultural Industries
8.10.3. Culture and Cultural Heritage

8.11. Cultural Stratification and Cultural Practices

8.11.1. Definitions
8.11.2. Stratification by Social Classes
8.11.3. Occupational Prestige or Status Scales

Module 9. Urban Sociology

9.1. Cities in History

9.1.1. Use of Public Spaces
9.1.2. The Function of the Spaces
9.1.3. Urbanization Processes

9.2. Theories of the City

9.2.1. Precursors
9.2.2. Evolution
9.2.3. Contemporary Thinking

9.3. The Problems of the City

9.3.1. Housing
9.3.2. Social Segregation
9.3.3. Gentrification Processes

9.4. The Lived City

9.4.1. Human Ecology
9.4.2. Formation of Neighborhoods
9.4.3. Lifestyle

9.5. Space and Power

9.5.1. The Relationship Between Space and Power
9.5.2. Intervention on the City
9.5.3. Privatization of Urban Space

9.6. Relationship Between Society and Urbanism

9.6.1. Urban Planning and Social Dynamism
9.6.2. Social Interaction in the City
9.6.3. Interdisciplinary City Planning

9.7. Space and Urban Society

9.7.1. From the Fordist Industrial City to the Post-Industrial City
9.7.2. The Globalized Service City
9.7.3. Hegemonic Urbanism and its Critique

9.8. Social Production and Urban Space Planning

9.8.1. Urban Planning Instruments
9.8.2. Strategic Urban Development Plans
9.8.3. Equipment and Goods of Collective Consumption

9.9. Urban Social Movements

9.9.1. Social Movements of Modernity
9.9.2. Modalities, Instruments and Evolution
9.9.3. Citizen Participation in the City

9.10. Strategies for Social Integration in the City

9.10.1. The Right to the City
9.10.2. The Inclusive City
9.10.3. Outline of the City of the Future

Module 10. Sociology of Diversity

10.1. Diversity and Equal Opportunities

10.1.1. Importance of Diversity and Equality
10.1.2. From Segregation to Inclusion
10.1.3. Principles of Social Normalization

10.2. Social Cohesion, Exclusion and Inequality

10.2.1. Normative Identities
10.2.2. Gender Identity and Sexuality
10.2.3. Dysfunctions and Social Roles

10.3. Citizenship and Democratic Participation

10.3.1. What is Democratic Participation?
10.3.2. Territorial Social Exclusion
10.3.3. Diversity and Public Policies

10.4. Networks and Communities in the Face of the Crisis

10.4.1. Concept of Social Resilience
10.4.2. Importance of Communitarianism
10.4.3. Reconfiguration of Communitarianism

10.5. Identity in the Shaping of Culture

10.5.1. What is Culture and How Important is It?
10.5.2. Culture as a Motor of Individual Identity
10.5.3. Collective Identities: From Security to Risk

10.6. The Evolution of Identity

10.6.1. Identity and its Relationship with Diversity
10.6.1. Identity as a Project
10.6.2. Globalization-Localization Dialectic

10.7. Contexts and Sources of Diversity

10.7.1. Social Mediation: Class, Gender and Mental Health
10.7.2. Age, Ethnicity and Disability
10.7.3. Socio-Community Intervention

10.8. Social Exclusion Processes

10.8.1. What is Social Exclusion and What is its Impact?
10.8.2. From Formal and Non-Formal Education
10.8.3. Differential Aspects and Images of Diversity

10.9. Good Practices in Social Inclusion Policies

10.9.1. Transfer of Information
10.9.2. Dissemination
10.9.3. Encouraging Reflection

10.10. Characteristics of Inclusive Projects

10.10.1. Areas, Spaces and Exclusion Factors
10.10.2. Social Purposes
10.10.3. Methodology and Tools

10.11.  Backbone of Social Inclusion

10.11.1. Innovation in the Strategy
10.11.2. Integrity of Methods
10.11.3. Pluralism and Transversality

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