Module SOC1049 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC1049: Social Analysis II
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 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:
- The Social in Discussion
- The Interactionist Turn
- Phenomenology and Post-Phenomenologically Themes
- Post-Structuralism
- Risk Society, Individualisation, Transnational and Environmental Issues
- Migration, Dis/placement and Dis/abilities
- Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitics
- New Materialism
- Sociology and Art
- Transphenomena
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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27 | 123 | 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 hours weekly lectures. Lectures provide students with a broad overview of types and ways of social analysis; they cover more ground than is possible in tutorials, and are designed to establish a context in which to think about the issues discussed in tutorials. |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 5 | 5 x fortnightly 1 hour tutorials. A specific reading is assigned, and students are provided with a list of key issues to identify and discuss for each tutorial. Texts are carefully chosen as classic exemplars of the core course themes. |
Guided Independent study | 33 | Course readings |
Guided Independent study | 45 | Preparation for essays, library, research |
Guided Independent study | 45 | Exam revisions. |
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.
General texts on contemporary social analysis:
P. Jones (2003) Introducing Social Theory
C. Calhoun et.al. (2002) Contemporary Sociological Theory
Harrington, A. (2005) Modern Social Theory
Some texts by key social theorists covered in the module:
Adorno, T.W. and Horkheimer, M. (1997) Dialectic of Enlightenment
Berger, P.L. and Luckmann, T. (1966) The Social Construction of Reality
Garfinkel, H. (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology
Goffman, E. (1959) The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life
Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Millett, Kate (1971) Sexual Politics
Fanon, Frantz (1986) Black Skins, White Masks
Beck, U. (1992) Risk Society
Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the Social