3rd Bachelor in Midwifery

Anthropology and sociology

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ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffDISCRY, Anne
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_SF0050/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To acquire notions of sociology and anthropology in relation with the thematics of the birth and the family : dual society and poverty, the social inequalities faced with health, the cultural dimension of behaviors, the cultural traditions about birth and practices of maternage in the time and in the world, the various shapes of parentality, ...

To nurture a reflection on social behaviors in order to better understand mechanisms that underlie our society.

Description

The sociological perspective / the anthropological perspective

The social inequalities

The social inequalities faced with health

The cultural dimension of behaviors

The cultural diversity within our society

The birth in the world through some beliefs and rituals

Practices of maternage in the world

The hospital facing the cultural diversity

The birth from the Prehistory to the 21th century

The birth in the world through some statistics

The family, a reality with multiple facets

Bibliography

No main reference book; but a lot of book abstracts, articles, feature articles, ...

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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