Sociology

This course examines kinship, a foundational concern of anthropology. Kinship is, essentially about, relationships. The course investigates the forms, meanings and manipulations of relationships that people have constructed across various historical and cultural contexts. Comparing the diverse ways in which people live, labor and love, it examines the centrality of kinship to understandings of what it means to be a person. Concurrently, kinship is a medium for grappling with the interactions between intimate life and public culture, domestic production-reproduction and political economy, everyday practices and conceptual structures and affection and moral obligations. The focus of the course is on how kinship is a vital force in contemporary societies.

This course explores the origin, importance, and expansion of the concept of leisure in capitalist western society and its connection to tourism. Topics include: origins and evolution of the tourism system; tourism in the context of anthropological research; symbolic and experiential aspects of tourist practice; attraction of the destination; contemporary tourism.

This course introduces the different areas of study of the sociology of culture. Topics include: study of culture in classical sociology; schools of the sociology of culture and interdisciplinarity; culture and identity; class, power, and culture; gender and ethnicity; cultural production; cultural reception; culture and mass media; culture of citizenship.

This course examines the basic principles of education and introduces the internal logic between education and society through analysis of case studies and theories. The course covers topics such as the function of education in humanization and socialization, and its role in improving society and individual quality of life.