You need to activate javascript for this site.
Menu Conteúdo Rodapé
  1. Home
  2. Courses
  3. Sociology: Exclusion and Social Policies
  4. Citizenship and Multiculturalism

Citizenship and Multiculturalism

Code 13386
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(30H)
Scientific area Sociology
Entry requirements Not applicable
Mode of delivery Face-to-face
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes In this curricular unit is intended that the student have scientific knowledge and condition to further deepen theoretical and methodological analysis of the processes of civic, ethnic, and cultural inclusion, based on the relationship between the concepts of citizenship and multiculturalism. The student should be able to: evaluate the contemporary contexts of civic and political participation, its effect on the logic of collective action and its relation to the ethnic and cultural identities; to better understand the specificities meaning of the multiculturalism in national, regional, and local levels and its relations with the active citizenship, participation and sociocultural inclusion; to better understand the process of identity construction and its impact on the logic of the collective action. At the end of the CU, it is expected that the student can be able to interpret and critically appraise and discuss the theories of citizenship, the dynamics of the civic participation and on theoretical and practice issues of multiculturalism.
Syllabus 1. Theories of Citizenship.
2. Citizenship and the logic of collective action in the contemporary societies.
3. The different senses and different features of "participation".
4. The concept and theories of multiculturalism.
5. Ethnicity, identities, nationalism, and civic participation.
6. Ethnic minorities in national contexts, processes of social and political inclusion/exclusion.
Main Bibliography Barber, Genjamin (1984), Strong Democracy, Participatory Politics for a New Age, California: University of California Press
Cabral, Manuel Villaverde (1997), Cidadania Política e Equidade Social em Portugal, Oeiras: Celta
Fenton, Steve (2003). Ethnicity: racism, class and culture. Cambridge, Polity Press.
Kivisto, Peter (2002), Citizenship in a Global Society, Blackwell: Oxford
Kymlika, Will (1996), Multicultural Citizenship, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kymlika, Will (2001), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kymlika, Will; Banting, Keith (2007), Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Moddod, Tariq (2013), Multiculturalism, Cambridge: Polity Press
Santos, Boaventura Sousa (org.) (2003), Democratizar a Democracia – Os Caminhos da Democracia Participativa, Porto: Afrontamento
Szaló, Csaba (ed.) (1998). On European Identity: nationalism, culture and history. Brno, Masaryk University
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2019-07-21

The cookies used in this website do not collect personal information that helps to identify you. By continuing you agree to the cookie policy.