Cultural Anthropology

5 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese

The curricular unit aims to:

  • contribute to the humanistic education of the students of Social Work;
  • show the specificity of CA as a Social Science;
  • present culture as a second nature and the human being as both producer and product of culture;
  • highlight the role of culture as a filter in the relationship of the Human Person with her/himself.
  • analyse the interdependence between culture and community life;
  • develop the self-consciousness of the students regarding the internalization of ethnocentric attitudes and stereotypes;
  • analyse the presence of cultural diversity in the Social Worker’s practices.

Faculty

Assistant Professor
He holds a PhD in Social Work from Carleton University, Canada. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic…
Assistant Professor
PhD in Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Oporto, M.A. in Political Science and International Relations, Postgraduate in Civics and B.A…