Curricular Unit:			Code:
Sociology of Ageing			1006SENV
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	CTSP	Gerontology and Community Intervention	3 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Winter Semester		Portuguese/English	39
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The curricular unit aims to create conditions for: - Acquire the conceptual and technical knowledge of Sociology of Aging and understand its relations with public policies that apply directly to senior groups. - Equating different adjustment scenarios between demographic evolution and corporate organization regarding the foundations of the Social State: in health, education and social security. - Know the national and supranational guidelines on active aging policies and retract examples on a macro and micro scale.
Syllabus:
I. Assumptions of the Sociology of Aging. 1. Curriculum framework and objectives. 2. Sources and methodological procedures. II. Demographic aging and social organization. 1. Causes and consequences of demographic aging. 2. State of the population education, health and social security. 3. Demographic aging and economic policies. III. Aging demographic and corporate reorganization. 1. Demographic changes and the Social State: models and proposals. 2. The Portuguese case.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The Sociology of Aging, as a branch of specific knowledge, due to the demographic aging and its consequences transversal to the whole society, it has become increasingly notorious and prevalent. The Sociology of Aging, is perhaps that branch of sociology in which the interaction between the macro and micro planes becomes more incisive. In addition, aging has been the object of study and political definitions in the most varied instances that can be identified from the United Nations to the Parishes, this transversality of problems, problematizations and solutions influences the life and the quality of life and vice versa the conditions and dynamics of the Influence the policies and the social order, which is reflected both in the contents and in the objectives of the discipline.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The teaching methodologies to be used will be as follows: Exposure of the subject by the teacher Case study Individual works in class and extra class Evaluation 10% continuous
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The methodology teaching learning adopted by the discipline, involves introducing the main themes related to the aging of the population, social status, the different political orientations and socio-economic organization models that are associated to, while at the same time there is an efforte to put in context these themes with life and dayly existence of elderly, in this sense these will be object of theoretical approach and problematization. At the same time, students are expected to reflect on their applicability as future professionals in the field. In a coherent way, the evaluation methods favor the practical and participatory dimension (continuous evaluation, individual assignments) and the ability to frame and question the dimensions of the phenomenon under analysis (written test).
Reading:
CARVALHO, Maria I. (2013). Serviço Social no Envelhecimento. Lisboa: Pactor. CAMPELO, A. (2019). A Minha Casa. Habitar, acolher e viver na Idade Sénior. Viana do Castelo: Fundação Caixa Crédito Agrícola do Noroeste. FLETCHER, J.R. (2021). Age-associations in British politics for the sociology of ageing. Br.J. Social. 72: 609-626. Marques, Sibila (2011). Discriminação da Terceira idade. Lisboa: FFMS. POZZI, G.; Cachada, R. A.; Micaelo, A.L. (2019). Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction. Archivio antropologico mediterraneo, XXII, 21 (2):1-8. SETTERSTEN, R. et al (2011). Handbook of Sociology of Aging. NY., London: Springer. WATANABE, D. (2021). Understanding diversity in later life and a new culture of aging in Japan. Consulta em: https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809211005355.