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The course aims to: - Facilitate an understanding of the fundamental processes that shape culture and society. - Introduce students to the sociological analysis of culture, society, and their respective transformations. - Promote the development of skills necessary for analyzing society and culture through various sociological perspectives and methodologies.

LEARNING OUTCOMES 3.Have the ability to collect and interpret data and information on which to base their conclusions including, when necessary and relevant, reflection on social, scientific or ethical matters in the field of Sociology. 4.To be able to function in complex situations or that require the development of new solutions both in the academic and labor or professional fields within the field of Sociology study. BASIC COMPETENCES 3. Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgements which include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. GENERAL COMPETENCES 5.Relate the competences of Sociology and other related disciplines in recognizing the global and local character of social phenomena. SPECIFIC COMPETENCES 4.Analyse the main concepts and generalizations about human society and its processes. 7.Know the human species through culture, kinship and habitat. 15.Know how to choose the relevant social research techniques (quantitative and qualitative) at all times.

1. Nature, culture and society 2. Theories about culture and cultural diversity. 3. Social and cultural dynamics: The local and the global; mass culture and consumer society; rural-urban society; the cultured and the popular; culture of violence vs. culture of peace; generational change (youth cultures); identities and collective memory; democratic society and culture. 4. Old and new social paradigms.

Theoretical classes for acquisition of competences related to the knowledge of the fundamental elements that constitute the culture and society. Assignments will be both individual and collective. Some of the assignments will be presented in class orally.