College of Social Sciences and International Studies

Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society
Module SOC2088 for 2017/8

Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC2088: Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Lecture topics may include:

- Theorising the body

- Categorising the body – deviance, cultural constructions, and social inequality

- Regulating bodies – discipline and punish? Social control and beyond

- Marking, performing and displaying bodies

Bodies as sites of consumption

- Experiences of bodies and embodiment

- Bodies of/in ethnography

- Technologies of/and bodies

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching	22	11 x 2 hour lectures, involving presentations, group discussion, and film screenings
Guided independent study	18	Preparing a formative, research based presentation individually
Guided independent study	80	Reading and research, with roughly 10% dedicated to seminar preparation
Guided independent study	30	Web-based activities

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

news media, blogs and online fora

films and relevant feature films