¡Hello! We are presenting the Action 3 teaching innovation project
whose title is: Introduction to Sociology and
Auditory Disability, facing new challenges.
The need to face this challenge comes from
the oportunity provided by our support service for functional diversity
in the functional diversity training course
for teaching and research staff
in June, 2018.
We acknowledge them for their support.
The presentation will be black and white, so that the students
who have visual disorders can read it easily.
I am one of the professors of the subject,
my name is María José del Pino Espejo and I am going to explain
the first block: Introduction to Sociology.
We will be following mainly a handbook
written by Prof. Richard T. Schaeferd,
whose title is Sociology: A Brief Introduction,
2016 Edition, McGraw-Hill Education.
In block 1 we will be seeing the nature and objective of sociology
and the sociological perspectives.
We’re working together with Aciso,
thanks to the cooperation on eliminating communication barriers
from Aciso, Spanish acronym for: cultural association
for deaf people inclusion, this project is possible.
The Aciso telephone number is: 954 57 86 61,
and their e-mail is: acisordo@gmail.com
10 San Rafael Street, Seville 41005.
Next, you will see the PowerPoint presentation
for block 1
while the Aciso sign language interpreter signs.
Thanks a lot for your attention.
The course consists of three blocks.
Block 2 will be presented by Prof. Ferri,
and block 3 will be presented by Prof. Martínez.
We need to count on you,
so that the different capabilities
are included in our education system,
in our analysis of society.
We are aware of
the guidelines
of the global movement
for disabled people rights
when it embraced as part of their struggle
the sentence: "nothing without us...
I'm sorry, "nothing about us without us",
applying to all genders.
We are going to begin with a definition of sociology.
We can,
according to our handbook, state that sociology
is the scientific analysis
of social behaviour
and human groups.
One of the key concepts is The Sociological Imagination,
a book written by Mills.
And this sociological imagination
can be defined as the awareness
of the relationship
between personal experience
and the wider society.
It is based on the ability of percieving our own society
as an outsider,
rather than regarding it building on the limitations
of our cultural basis
and personal experience.
I need you in order to percieve society from your perspective.
I believe in the influence that we can have
in people's behaviour and attitudes
and how we will contribute
to shape an inclusive university education
for you and together with you.
We'll be looking through the origin of sociology now.
If we go back to the 19th century
we will find some of the thinkers
that contributed to the origin of sociological thinking,
like Comte and Spencer,
whom you can study
with any sociology handbook.
Some of these handbooks are listed at the end.
The British female Martineau
is recognised as a professor
but not that much as a precursor of sociology.
We have to keep trying to acknowledge women
as precursors of sociology,
since the credit is normally given to men.
Another remarkable personalities regarding sociological thinking
are Durkheim,
Weber or Marx.
They can also be found
in any sociology handbook for discussion.
However,
Dubois, an advocate of what it entails to be a black person in the USA,
is not as widely recognised as
Durkheim,
Weber or Marx.
We go on with this horrible listing of names, so in the 20th century
we find Bourdieu,
Cooley,
and Merton,
they are the most referenced sociologists in handbooks.
But, if we do a more extensive research,
we also find women advocating for inclusive sociology,
like Adams
or Wells-Barnett.
We encourage you to read
about these pioneers and leaders of sociology
not only in handbooks
but also using the search engines on the internet.
We shouldn't forget wives and female partners
of many sociology pioneers,
who contributed to editing their literary publications
and to the develpment of their thinking,
events that aren't shown in handbooks.
During lessons, we go through each of these authors
and the people who contributed
to the development of their work.
Students must create their own diagrams,
they must do research,
and they must attend lessons
to discuss, clarify
and debate.
On Blackboard they will find more presentations for each unit
with pictures that we keep updating every year,
videos and also sociology online lessons.
Besides, they can find supporting material
to ease the study.
Sociology can be approached and felt in many different ways.
We will highlight three of them:
Basic or Pure Sociology,
of which we will see an example later,
Applied Sociology
and Clinical Sociology.
Basic or Pure Sociology,
for example, would include doing a research about
deaf students in Spanish universities,
by writing a paper as teaching and research staff
or conducting a study on the challenges
that me and my coworker had to deal with
due to having students with different capabilities
and no education and how we tackled that.
An example of Applied Sociology
would be,
taking the same situation, assessing the deaf community needs
in the university environment
and letting university, higher bodies,
DGs, Vice-Rectorates,
and the University Chancellor guide us
and assisting us.
So I must, as a teacher, wait for instructions.
For example, this teaching innovation project,
and when we applied for it.
But we would be talking about Clinical Sociology
when we include deaf community
and we get directly involved in changing their situation.
Students with different capabilities have instructed us in the course
that we mentioned,
so we are taking action with a concrete attitude.
For them, but also with them.
We can also talk about the jobs
that our students get when they finish their sociology degree.
In our handbook, it is pointed out that in the USA
24% of the graduates
works in the Social and Counselling Services Sector;
14% in Sales and Marketing;
14% in Administration and Support;
12% in Services and another 12% in Education;
5% in Social Science Research
and 4% in Management.
Our Department of Sociology
emphasizes as career opportunities
Social Intervention,
Applied Social Research,
Education,
Work Organisation
and Public Policy.
We have got plenty of books,
of which the students must choose one
for each unit
and the teacher suggests which chapter they should read
of that particular book,
or books for the students who'd like to read more, the more the better.
You should keep in mind that 70% of the whole mark
comes from the theoretical part,
that you must read some of the handbooks,
just the chapters corresponding to each block
and also check the website
for material such as videos, presentations...
The remaining 30% of the assessment is the practical part
that can be carried out in the classroom
at the university
or with the institutions that the teachers offer
and the students request.
Thank you so much for you attention,
special thanks to Aciso
and to the media laboratory technical team
of this university,
who enables us to be here today.