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Syllabus:

Theme 1: Introduction to the study of sociology;

The emergence of sociology as a science;

Premises for the emergence of sociology.

Notion and object of sociology;

Theories that address the issue of sociology's object of study;

Objectives, tasks and functions of sociology;

The first sociologists;

Theme 2: Field of social sciences;

2.1- Unity and plurality of social sciences;

2.2- The complementarity and interdependence of the social sciences;

2.3- Social phenomena and sociological phenomena;

2.4- The levels of scientific knowledge;

Theme 3: Epistemological foundations of sociology;

3.1- Sociology and sociologies, fields and divisions of sociology;

3.2- Sociology as a profession. The sociology market.

3.3- The roles of sociologists in society;

3.4- Types of sociologists;

3.5- The sociological imagination;

3.6- Nature of the sociological imagination;

3.7- Fundamental concepts and themes of sociology;

3.8- Social contributions of sociology;

Theme 4: Socialization and its fundamentals;

4.1-

4.2-

4.3- Socialization process;

4.4- Socialization mechanisms;

4.5- Socialization agents;

4.6- Means of socialization;

4.7- Socialization and sociability;

Theme 5: Role and social status;

5.1- Concept of social role;

5.2- Types of social roles;

5.3- Concept of bylaws;

5.4- Types of bylaws;

5.5- Relationship between status and theatrical role;

Theme 6: Society and culture;

6.1- Society: Some possible definitions;

6.2- Nature of the company;

6.3- Models of society in sociological analysis;

6.4- Sociological concepts of culture;

6.4.1- Material and spiritual elements;

6.5- Norms, values and behaviors;

6.6- Compliance and deviation;

6.7- Social control and anomie;

6.8- Cultural relativism and cultural ethnocentrism;

6.9- Culture, subculture, counterculture and acculturation;

6.10- Man as a product and producer of culture;

6.11- Tradition, modernity and post-modernity;

Theme 7: Sociology in Angola;

7.1- Study of some conditions;

7.1.1- Scientific constraints;

7.1.2- Political constraints;

7.1.3- Cultural constraints;

7.2- Teaching sociology in Angola;