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
Filipe Duarte is an interdisciplinary scholar in social policy, public policy, social work, and sustainable development. He earned his PhD from Carleton…
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences in the Portuguese Catholic University since 2015. Member of to the Philosophy Studies Centre and member…