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Daily Life Social Psychology
Courses Degree in Social Sciences
Cod: 41054
Department: DCSG
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Psychology
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 15

This course unit continues the study on social psychology, exploring new contents of the area related to individuals daily life: gender, loneliness, behavior in groups and collective behavior.

Social Psychology
Gender
Loneliness
Social Behaviour

Students are expected

-To adquire basic concepts and theories in the area of social psychology
• to acquire the basic concepts, to understand the theories and to identify the issues concerning gender in social psychology;

• to acquire the basic concepts, to understand the theories and to identify the issues concerning loneliness in social psychology;

• to acquire the basic concepts, to understand the theories and to identify the issues concerning group and social behaviour

I. Gender
II. Loneliness
III. Group behaviour
IV. Collective behaviour

Burton, N. (2014). The perils and privileges of loneliness. Psychology today.

Miranda, J. (2014). Numa urbe genderizada. Vivências dos espaços. Revista Latino-Americana de Geografia e Género, vol.5, nº2, 163-174.

Neto, F. (2000). Psicologia Social. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.

Online learning with continuous supervision favoring asynchronous communication (Moodle platform).
Students have to perform the tasks requested by the teacher: essays, critical recensions, reports, protocols, etc. All works will be evaluated and/or classified.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).