6 ECTS credits
175 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4020472EER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.
The abolition of slavery, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the granting of equal rights to women and universal suffrage are all developments supported by an important cultural development. The emergence, generalization and institutionalization of freedom and equality as normative ideals can be seen as one of the most characteristic features of cultural modernization.
This course consists out of three parts:
For more questions, please contact the lecturer.
Anton Derks, Tel *32/2/494.17.20.95, Anton.Derks@vub.ac.be.
A reader will be available. The texts of the reader will be discussed during the lessons. Active learning will be encouraged: the students are supposed to apply their knowledge to various actual social phenomena.
This course focuses on the cultural consequences of the process of modernization. The conflict between the principle of formal equality and the actual persistence of social inequality will be a point of particular interest. This should improve our understanding of phenomena such as populism, social resentment and the appeal of the extreme right.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Not applicable.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Sociology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Behavioural Sciences: agogische wetenschappen (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)