DEVM-585 Citizenship and Society

DEVM-585 Citizenship and Society

Professor Gabriela Delamata

The course focuses on a series of political and sociological issues related to the transformation of socio-political relationships and collective institutions that had developed in occidental democracies during the second part of the XXth century. The de-institutionalization of that matrix has produced different processes of social individualization, which present positive or negative characteristics --depending on the cases and the authors-- in relation to the constitution of autonomous subjects. The structure of the course is organized around two major axis with their theoretical and practical implications. The first one is the notion of citizenship. The second one concerns the new forms of collective action that have emerged in the 1990s. The course situates the debates in the general context of contemporary democracies with an emphasis in Latin America and, in particular, Argentina. The approach we propose seeks to analyse how social actors become conscious of being such, and also the way social science discourses contribute to shape those processes as a result of their own transformations and inflexions.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

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• 2004-2005

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