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Courses related to BIDS
Presentation spring 2014
Introduction
The Department of Sociology has created four (4)
courses that suit the interest of BIDS-students
Reflect the research tradition in the department
Focus: migration, social policy, sustainable
development, and development sociology
Together, the courses cover a whole academic year
They are also open to other students
Lectures, seminars and take-home exams
Courses 2014-2015
The fall semester offers two courses:
SOCB27: Sociology: International Migration &
Development, 15 credits (half-speed)
SOCB28: Sociology: Development and Social
Welfare Policies, 15 credits (half-speed)
The courses run in parallel (amount to a full-time
course)
Courses 2014-2015
The spring semester offers two courses:
SOC B29: Sociology: Managing Sustainability, 15
credits (half-speed)
SOC B26: Sociology: The Sociology of Human
Development, 15 credits (half-speed)
The courses run in parallel (amount to a full-time
course)
SOCB27: Sociology: International
Migration & Development
Introduction to international migration: background,
basic concepts and theories
The politics of migration in developed countries, e.g.
labor, regulations, policies
The impact of migration in developing countries, e.g.
the issue of brain drain, brain gain, brain circulation
SOCB27: Sociology: International
Migration & Development
Migration, governance and international development,
e.g. remittances, donor perspectives, migration as
development strategies
The politics of incorporation, e.g. assimilation and
integration
Guest lectures, e.g. Chinese migration perspectives
(guests from Peking University)
SOCB27: Sociology: International
Migration & Development
Migration to Western Europe, e.g. the case of Sweden
Migration control, security and the state
Diasporas and transnational identities
Gender and labor migration
Human trafficking
SOCB28: Sociology: Development
and Social Welfare Policies
Typologies of social policy systems and welfare
ideologies, theories and concepts etc.
Social welfare policies in development strategies, e.g.
donor perspectives and policies
Social welfare policies: The Northern/Scandinavian
context
Poverty and pro-poor growth, the role of the market
SOCB28: Sociology: Development
and Social Welfare Policies
Country cases, e.g. social protection arrangements in
different contexts
Population policy and social protection/welfare,
usually with focus on China
Gender issues, e.g. the role of care work and women in
social policy strategies
Welfare Policies in authoritarian contexts
SOC B26: Sociology: The Sociology
of Human Development
The historical background of development, e.g.
structural transformation in Europe and the legacy of
colonialism
Development philosophy, e.g. ideas and concepts
Sociology and development, e.g. the classical
sociological thinkers, and how sociology can be used
in the analysis of development
Contemporary sociological theories on development
SOC B26: Sociology: The Sociology
of Human Development
Southern perspectives on development and post
colonial theory
Defining poverty, e.g. concepts and dimensions
Measuring poverty, e.g. definitions, indexes and
approaches
Researching the reality of the poor, e.g. participatory
approaches and bottom-up methodology
Case studies and mixed methods in development
sociology
Guest lecturers (often from India)
SOC B29: Sociology: Managing
Sustainability
Theories on the nature-society relationship, e.g. the
role of nature in relation to socio-economic
development
The constructivist approach to environmental
problems, e.g. are environmental problems ‘real’ or are
they ‘socially created’?
The rise of ‘green politics’, e.g. the history of ideas and
concepts related to sustainability
Policy-making and approaches for sustainable
development, e.g. regimes and ideas
SOC B29: Sociology: Managing
Sustainability
Development and the environment, e.g. the ‘costs’ of
industrialization and modernization
Capitalism and sustainable development, e.g. are they
compatible?
Social organization and sustainability, e.g. are
collective efforts possible at a global scale?
Researching environmental sociology, e.g. examples
and lectures on research experience
Minor Field Studies (MFS)
The Department of Sociology has eight (8)
scholarships
Six (6) will be awarded to applicants who study
Sociology, Social Anthropology and Education.
The remaining two are for students from other
departments.
Several scholarships are available for 2014/15 – contact
Ulrika Reichert (MFS Advisor)
[email protected]