Module SOC2116 for 2023/4
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC2116: Sociology and Demography of Religion
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 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 topics:
- Is God dying? The secularization paradigm and its critics
- The paradox of religion in Europe
- Measuring religion across time and space
- Data sources on religion
- Religion and gender
- Religion and socioeconomic status
- Group presentations
- Religion, health and well-being
- Religion and the family
- Spirituality and New Age religions
- The future of religion
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 |
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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 |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2 hour weekly lectures/computer lab sessions |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Reading and preparing for seminars (4-6 hours per week); |
Guided Independent Study | 80 | Study tasks directed by the module leader: e.g. 10 hours for group presentation, 15 hours for the short report and 55 hours for the final research report |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Pew Research Centre, Religion and Public Life: http://www.pewforum.org/
European Social Survey Cumulative File, ESS 1-7 (2016). Data file edition 1.0. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway - Data Archive and distributor of ESS data for ESS ERIC. https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/
Inglehart, R., C. Haerpfer, A. Moreno, C. Welzel, K. Kizilova, J. Diez-Medrano, M. Lagos, P. Norris, E. Ponarin & B. Puranen et al. (eds.). 2014. World Values Survey: Round Six - Country-Pooled Datafile Version: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSDocumentationWV6.jsp. Madrid: JD Systems Institute.
ISSP Research Group (2018): International Social Survey Programme: Religion III - ISSP 2008. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA4950 Data file Version 2.3.0, doi:10.4232/1.13161