Postgraduate Module Descriptor

SOCM023: Social Theory

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

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes:

Theme 1: Epistemology

Theme 2: Structure/Agency

Theme 3: Everyday life

Theme 4: Power and inequality

Theme 5: Post-humanism and the ontological turn

Each theme will be discussed via the medium of empirical research and/or examples

Learning and Teaching

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 Activities	22	11 x 2 hour seminars
Guided Independent Study	60	Preparation for seminars: 60 hours
Guided Independent Study	68	Preparation for essays: 68 hours

Online Resources

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

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Inglis, D. and Thorpe, C. (ed) (2012) An Invitation to Social Theory, London: Sage

Stones, R. (ed) (2008) Key Sociological Thinkers, 2^nd ed., Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Gane, N. (ed) (2004) The Future of Social Theory, New York: Continuum

Giddens, A. (1971) Capitalism and Modern Social Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Rabinow, P. and Sullivan W.M. (eds) (1979) Interpretive Social Science: a reader, Berkeley: University of California Press