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Module 1. Introduction to Sociology

1.1. The Nature of Sociology

1.1.1. Origins of Sociology
1.1.2. Classic Debates
1.1.3. Top Exponents

1.2. Sociological Theories

1.2.1. Main Contemporary Theories
1.2.2. Theories of Order and Conflict
1.2.3. Structural Functionalism

1.3. Sociology as a Scientific Discipline

1.3.1. What Is a Research Project
1.3.2. Research Methods
1.3.3. Phases in the Research Process

1.4. Individuals and Society

1.4.1. The Person and the World
1.4.2. The State, the Polis and the Individual
1.4.3. Subjectivity and Objectivity

1.5. The Role Played by Culture in Society

1.5.1. Cultural Transformation: Acculturation
1.5.2. Modernity
1.5.3. Post Modernity

1.6. The Socialization and Personality Process

1.6.1. The Socialization Process
1.6.2. Types of Socialization
1.6.3. Mechanisms of Socialization

1.7. Social Deviance, Crime and Social Control

1.7.1. Deviation Concept
1.7.2. Deviation and Delinquency Theory
1.7.3. Functionalist Theories: Anomie
1.7.4. Social Control Theory

1.8. Social Stratification and Social Classes

1.8.1. The Concept of Social Classes: Origins
1.8.2. Class Conflict
1.8.3. Class Conflicts in the 20th Century

1.9. Daily Life and Social Relations

1.9.1. Symbolic Interactionism
1.9.2. Social Identity
1.9.3. New Forms of Relationship and Sociability

1.10. Families as a Social Institution

1.10.1. Family  vs. Society
1.10.2. Sociological Definitions about the Family
1.10.3. Families and Culture

Module 2. Methods and Techniques in Social Research

2.1. The Social Research

2.1.1. The Importance of Research in Social Sciences
2.1.2. Resources and Sources
2.1.3. Research Trends

2.2. The Observation in the Social Research

2.2.1. Observational Methods
2.2.2. Non-Participant Observation
2.2.3. Participant Observation

2.3. The Interview

2.3.1. Interview-Research Relation
2.3.2. Uses and Method of Application
2.3.3. Types. In-Depth Interview. Semi-Structured

2.4. Group Techniques for Applied Social Research

2.4.1. Discussion Groups
2.4.2. Focus Group Technique
2.4.3. The Delphi Technique

2.5. Techniques for Using and Searching for Information

2.5.1. Sources
2.5.2. References
2.5.3. Bibliography

2.6. Concept of Sample

2.6.1. Types of Sample and Sampling
2.6.2. The Concept of Population
2.6.3. The Concept of Universe

2.7. Research Designs

2.7.1. Descriptive
2.7.2. Exploratory
2.7.3. Experimental
2.7.4. Quasi-Experimental

2.8.  Documentary Analysis

2.8.1. What is the Documentary Analysis
2.8.2. Synthesis Strategies
2.8.3. Analysis Strategies

2.9. Discourse Analysis

2.9.1. Content Analysis
2.9.2. Conceptual Maps
2.9.3. Analysis of N-Vivo and Atlas-ti Programs

2.10. Statistical Analysis

2.10.1. Introduction to Statistics
2.10.2. SPSS Presentation
2.10.3. Mathematical Sociology

Module 3. Sociology of Work

3.1. Historical Fundamentals of Sociology

3.1.1. Origin
3.1.2. Concepts and Objectives
3.1.3. Preliminary Formation

3.1.3.1. Auguste Comte
3.1.3.2. Herbert Spencer
3.1.3.3. Emile Durkheim
3.1.3.4. Karl Marx
3.1.3.5. Max Webber

3.1.4. Sociology and Social Sciences

3.2. Predominant Social Relations

3.2.1. Society and Population
3.2.2. Social Groups
3.2.3. Social Role
3.2.4. Types of Social Roles
3.2.5. Social Classes

3.3. Social Structure and Organization

3.3.1. The Family
3.3.2. The School
3.3.3. The Media
3.3.4. The Nation and the State
3.3.5. The Church
3.3.6. Educational and Process of Socialization
3.3.7. Culture, Society and Individual
3.3.8. Social Institutions

3.4. Development and Evolution of the Society of Law

3.4.1. Basic Concepts

3.4.1.1. Power
3.4.1.2. Lawfulness
3.4.1.3. Legal Aspects

3.4.2. Politics and its Implications
3.4.3. Origin and Development of the Society of Law

3.5. Currents of Legal Sociology

3.5.1. Social Life and Social Judgment
3.5.2. Social Functions of Law
3.5.3. Sociology and its Relationship with Law

3.6. Rules and Roles

3.6.1. Of the Lawyer
3.6.2. Of the Judge
3.6.3. Of the Police
3.6.4. Roles and Parties in Legal Proceedings
3.6.5. Prosecutors
3.6.6. Actors
3.6.7. Respondents
3.6.8. Victims
3.6.9. Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Groups
3.6.10. Validity and Effectiveness of the Law
3.6.11. Social Control
3.6.12. Order Against Repression
3.6.13. Law as an Instrument of Control

3.7. Social Classes and Social Stratification

3.7.1. Concept of Social Stratification
3.7.2. Social Classes Theory

3.8. Social Change

3.8.1. Evolution and Social Change
3.8.2. Factors and Conditions of Social Change
3.8.3. Agents of Social Change

3.9. Social Legal Institutions

3.9.1. Relationship between the State and the Constitution
3.9.2. Administration and Delivery of Justice
3.9.3. Conservative and Law Reforming Forces
3.9.4. Social Forces Acting on Legislation
3.9.5. Social Influence in the Process of Policy Making
3.9.6. Social Vision of the Application of the Law

3.10. Contemporary Thought in Mexico

3.10.1. Main Sociological Schools and their Exponents
3.10.2. Contemporary Sociological
3.10.3. Development and Evolution of Thought in Mexico

Module 4. Social Change and Future Trends

4.1. Social Change

4.1.1. Importance, Approaches, Concepts and Fundamental Aspects
4.1.2. Social Change in Sociology, and Vice Versa
4.1.3. Social Context of Sociology. The Industrialization

4.2. Sociological Approaches

4.2.1. Major Theories of Social Change
4.2.2. Characteristics of Social Changes
4.2.3. Factors and Key Aspects

4.3. Theoretical Perspectives of Social Change

4.3.1. Classical Evolutionism
4.3.2. Neoevolutionism and Functionalism
4.3.3. Sociobiology

4.4. Theories of Modernization

4.4.1. Liquid Modernity
4.4.2. From Modernity to Postmodernity
4.4.3. Other Theories of Change

4.5. Cyclical Theories

4.5.1. Cyclical Perspective of the History
4.5.2. Social Change as Cultural Change
4.5.3. Circulation of Elites

4.6. Constructivist Theories

4.6.1. Social Development
4.6.2. David Ausubel
4.6.3. Jean Piaget

4.7. Causes and Types of Social Change

4.7.1. Progress and Reality
4.7.2. Time and Society
4.7.3. Heritage and Transition

4.8.  Social Movements

4.8.1. Social Movements Importance
4.8.2. Others Agents of Social Change
4.8.3. Revolutions and Counter Revolutions

4.9. Techniques and Sources for the Study of Social Change

4.9.1. Social Indicators
4.9.2. Historical and Comparative Analysis
4.9.3. Prognosis

4.10. Foresight and Social Change

4.10.1. Studies of the Future
4.10.2. Technological Change, Economic Cycle and Social Change
4.10.3. Origin and Evolution of Prospective Studies

Module 5. Social Innovation

5.1. Concept of Social Innovation

5.1.1. Definitions
5.1.2. Theoretical Perspectives
5.1.3. Theoretical Models

5.2. Historical Evolution of Social Innovation

5.2.1. The Importance of Social Innovation in the History
5.2.2. Educational and Sanitary Field
5.2.3. Structures and Social Institutions

5.3. Dynamics of Change and Social Action

5.3.1. Social Processes
5.3.2. Social and Economic Impact
5.3.3. Gender and Opportunity Perspective

5.4.  Inclusion, Participation and Intervention in Social Innovation Processes

5.4.1. Citizen Participation in the Design of Public Policies
5.4.2. Methodologies for Participatory Social Innovation Processes
5.4.3. Good Innovative Practices of Community Inclusion

5.5.  The New Social Contexts of Social Innovation

5.5.1. The Network Society
5.5.2. The Social, Cooperative and Solidarity Economy
5.5.3. The World-System

5.6. Methods and Techniques of Social Research for Innovation

5.6.1. Encoding of The Social Reality
5.6.2. Identification and Construction of Indicators
5.6.3. The Trend Modeling Techniques

5.7. Tools for Interdisciplinary Team Management

5.7.1. Myths on Creativity
5.7.2. Horizontal Organization
5.7.3. Components of Individual Innovation

5.8. Strategic Planning for Social Innovation

5.8.1. Types of Innovation and Integration Tools
5.8.2. Detection of Problems and Opportunities
5.8.3. Doing Innovation: From Idea to Project

5.9. Assessment and Review of the Approach

5.9.1. Indicators for Design
5.9.2. Measuring Impact
5.9.3. Inclusion and Equality

5.10. Participatory Foresight for Social Innovation

5.10.1. Analysis of The Social Reality
5.10.2. Vision for the Future
5.10.3. Scenarios and Future Alternatives

Module 6. Social Anthropology Applied

6.1. Evolution of Applied Anthropology

6.1.1. The Role of the Anthropologists
6.1.2. Historical Development
6.1.3. Phases of Applied Anthropology

6.2. Anthropology and Social Planning

6.2.1. Importance of the Anthropology in the Social Context
6.2.2. Applied Anthropology
6.2.3. Practical Anthropology

6.3. Methods and Ethics of Applied Research

6.3.1. Ethnography and Participant Observation
6.3.2. Interview with Key Informants
6.3.3. Quantification through Social Indicators
6.3.4. Triangulation Techniques
6.3.5. Participatory Research
6.3.6. Ethics in Applied Research

6.4. Concept of Development and its Institutionalization

6.4.1. Institutionalization and Development
6.4.2. Anthropological Perspective
6.4.3. Sustainable Development: Concepts, Limitations, Ecological Basis

6.5. Theories and Ways of Measuring Development

6.5.1. Theories about Economic Development
6.5.2. Development as Modernization
6.5.3. Development through Dependency
6.5.4. Latin American Structuralism

6.6. Ecology and Rural Development in the Third World

6.6.1. Green Revolution vs. Agroecology
6.6.2. Local Knowledge: Technological Ethnocentrism
6.6.3. The Community Development Process
6.6.4. Rediscovering Local Initiative

6.7.  Poverty Measurement Methods and Indicators

6.7.1. Contributions and Critiques from Anthropology
6.7.2. Measuring Methods: Traditional and Modern Indexes and Their Indicators
6.7.3. Anthropological Reflections on the Forms of Measurement and the Conceptualization of Poverty and Development

6.8. Anthropology Applied to Participatory Development

6.8.1. Acculturation, Modernization and Induced Sociocultural Change
6.8.2. Directed Sociocultural Change and Modernization (1960-1970s)
6.8.3. Participatory Development

6.9. Women in Development

6.9.1. Women, Gender and Development
6.9.2. The Visibility of Women in Development
6.9.3. The “Women in Development” (WID) Approach

6.10. Indigenous Peoples and New Social Movements

6.10.1. Sustainable Development
6.10.2. Political Ecology: Objectives and Study Topics
6.10.3. The Political Ecology of Extractivism in Latin America
6.10.4. Indigenous Peoples and Development

Module 7. Family Sociology

7.1. The Person and Social Context

7.1.1. Introduction
7.1.2. Social Systems: Structures and Processes
7.1.3. The Ecological Model of Human Development

7.2. The Family: Concept, Types and Functions

7.2.1. The Family
7.2.2. Types of Family
7.2.3. Family Functions
7.2.4. Family Today

7.3. Family as a System

7.3.1. Management Functions
7.3.2. Concepts Related to the Understanding of the Family as a System
7.3.3. Authority and Power in the Family
7.3.4. The Life Cycle of the Family

7.4. The Influence of the Family on Psychological Development I: Childhood and Adolescence

7.4.1. Introduction
7.4.2. Necessities in Childhood
7.4.3. Necessities in Adolescence

7.5. The Influence of the Family on Psychological Development II: Adulthood and Old Age

7.5.1. Introduction
7.5.2. Changes in Attachment
7.5.3. Attachment in Young Adults that Form New Family Systems
7.5.4. Attachment in Middle-Aged and Older Adults
7.5.5. Individual Differences and Family Differences in Attachment
7.5.6. Become an Adult in the Family

7.6. Disturbances in Family Relationships I: Abuse in Childhood

7.6.1. Introduction
7.6.2. Psychological Aggression Emotional Blackmail
7.6.3. Child Abuse
7.6.4. The Etiology of Child Abuse
7.6.5. The Intergenerational Transmission of Child Abuse

7.7. Disturbances in Family Relationships II: Violence Against Women in the Family Context

7.7.1. Introduction
7.7.2. Types of Intimate Partner Violence
7.7.3. Development of Intimate Partner Violence Behavior
7.7.4. Epidemiology of Partner Violence
7.7.5. Consequences of Violence in Couple’s Relationship
7.7.6. Characteristics of Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
7.7.7. Assessment of Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
7.7.8. Psychological Treatment

7.8. Disturbances in Family Relationships III: Delinquent Behavior in Adolescence

7.8.1. Introduction
7.8.2. Characterization of the Families Suffering Child-to-Parent Violence
7.8.3. Prevention of Child-to-Parent Violence
7.8.4. Treatment of Child-to-Parent Violence
7.8.5. from the Family to the Delinquency

7.9. The Community from a Psychosocial Perspective: Community Psychology

7.9.1. Introduction
7.9.2. The Emergence of Community Psychology
7.9.3. Community Psychology in Latin America
7.9.4. Community Psychology in the Spanish Context

7.10. Concept and Sense of Community

7.10.1. Introduction
7.10.2. Concept of Community
7.10.3. Sense of Community
7.10.4. Community Action
7.10.5. Wellness and Quality of Life
7.10.6. Wellness and Community

Module 8. Planning of Social Interventions

8.1. The Role Played by Sociology in Social Intervention

8.1.1. Object and Purposes
8.1.2. Interdisciplinarity
8.1.3. Main Theoretical Perspectives

8.2. The Agents of Social Intervention

8.2.1. Occupations
8.2.2. Levels
8.2.3. Features

8.3. Planning Stages

8.3.1. Application Contexts
8.3.2. Diagnosis and Prognosis
8.3.3. Initial and Emergent Design

8.4. Participatory Design

8.4.1. Importance of the Participatory Design
8.4.2. Participatory – Action Research
8.4.3. Participatory Process

8.5. Tools and Techniques for Social intervention Planning

8.5.1. Planning of Social Interventions
8.5.2. Delphi Method
8.5.3. Participatory Techniques for Design

8.6. The Evaluation of the Social Intervention

8.6.1. Importance of Assessment
8.6.2. Types of Assessments
8.6.3. Typologies of Indicators

8.7. The Logical Framework Approach and The Cooperation Projects

8.7.1. Scope Mapping
8.7.2. Person-Centered Care
8.7.3. Needs Assessment

8.8. Quality Indicators

8.8.1. Importance of Indicators
8.8.2. Indicators in Design
8.8.3. Plan and Implementation Indicators

8.9. Cross-Cutting Keys in Design

8.9.1. What are Cross-Cutting Keys
8.9.2. Design of Plans, Programs and Projects
8.9.3. Theory of a Program: Change and Action

8.10. Application of the Community Psychology and Sociology in the Study of the Intervention Sectors

8.10.1. Old Age
8.10.2. Family and Minors
8.10.3. Cultural Conflicts

Module 9. Sociology of Organizations

9.1. Approach to Work and Organizational Psychology

9.1.1. Definition and Historical Conceptualization
9.1.2. Application of Work and Organizational Psychology
9.1.3. Psychological Pictures in the Workplace

9.2. Organizational Structure

9.2.1. Organizational Structure: The Organizational Chart
9.2.2. Group Structure: Types of Business Groups
9.2.3. Information Processing and Exchange in the Organization

9.3. Organizational Climate

9.3.1. Concept of Organizational Climate
9.3.2. The Importance of Establishing an Organizational Culture in the Company and Its Impact on the Worker
9.3.3. Organizational Climate Assessment

9.4. The Positive and Creative Context in Organizations

9.4.1. Introduction to the Positive Context
9.4.2. Handling Turbulent Contexts and Dispensers
9.4.3. Mediation Actions
9.4.4. Organizational Change

9.5. Social Psychology of Conflict and Negotiation

9.5.1. Social Conflict (The Human Group and Its Cognitive Components in a Group)
9.5.2. The Human Group: Collective Processes
9.5.3. Conflict Stimulation

9.6. Psychosocial Foundations of Human Behavior

9.6.1. Psychological Foundations of Human Behavior
9.6.2. Values
9.6.3. Perception
9.6.4. Learning
9.6.5. Commitment

9.7. Career Counseling

9.7.1. Contextualization of Guidance in the World of Work
9.7.2. Career Guidance in Lifelong Work-Based Learning: Skills
9.7.3. Digital Transformation in Career Guidance
9.7.4. International Organizations in Vocational and Career Guidance

9.8. Leadership, Change, Innovation and Development

9.8.1. Introduction and Definition of Leadership
9.8.2. Leadership Typologies
9.8.3. Leadership Skills Focused on Change and Innovation

9.9. Personality, Attitudes and Values in the Work Environment

9.9.1. Conceptualization of Personality
9.9.2. Personality Theories
9.9.3. Relationship between Attitudes and Personality
9.9.4. Personality and Work Environment

9.10. Motivation and Job Satisfaction

9.10.1. Motivation: Types (Extrinsic and Intrinsic)
9.10.2. Motivation and Personality
9.10.3. Job Satisfaction and Fulfillment

Module 10. Organizational Behavior

10.1. Organizational Behavior

10.1.1. Organizations
10.1.2. Organizational Theory
10.1.3. Organizations, People and Society
10.1.4. Historical Evolution of Organizational Behavior

10.2. Organizational Culture

10.2.1. Values and Organizational Culture
10.2.2. Key Components for Change in Organizations
10.2.3. The Evolution of Scientific Thought and the Organization as a System
10.2.4. Culture and Transformation

10.3. The Individual and the Organizations

10.3.1. Personality, Emotions,  Abilities and Learning
10.3.2. Individual Decision-Making
10.3.3. Work Values, Aptitudes and Job Satisfaction
10.3.4. Motivation

10.4. Organization Management

10.4.1. Collective Intelligence vs. Knowledge Management
10.4.2. Perspectives and Tools for Knowledge Management
10.4.3. Collaborative Environments and Learning Communities

10.5. People in Organizations

10.5.1. Quality of Work Life and Psychological Well-Being
10.5.2. Work Teams and Meeting Management
10.5.3. Coaching and Team Management

10.6. Organizational Structure

10.6.1. Main Coordination Mechanisms
10.6.2. Departments and Organization Charts
10.6.3. Authority and Responsibility
10.6.4. The Empowerment

10.7. Organizational Design

10.7.1. The Environment
10.7.2. The Strategy
10.7.3. Technology
10.7.4. Human Resources

10.8. Organizational Process

10.8.1. Implications of Performance Evaluation.on Organizational Behavior
10.8.2. Organizational Culture
10.8.3. Work Stress and Adaptation to the Environment

10.9. Power and Politics

10.9.1. Power within Organizations
10.9.2. Structural Power Sources
10.9.3. Political Tactics

10.10. Organizational Behavior and its Contribution to Other Disciplines

10.10.1. Human Relations
10.10.2. Public Relations
10.10.3. Applied Psychology

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