Module SOC1003 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC1003: Imagining Social Worlds: Texts
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
The aim of this module is to introduce you to a range of theoretical and practical issues faced by sociologists and anthropologists as they attempt to engage with and understand their human research subjects. Through a focus on a broad range of anthropological and sociological texts, the module aims to teach you how to research the social world. As a result, this module will equip you with analytical skills required for developing your own anthropological and sociological imagination.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate a basic knowledge of a range of key methodological approaches and theoretical orientations in anthropology and sociology 2. demonstrate a basic knowledge of the ways in which social and historical context has influenced the process of social research; 3. evaluate the research strategies and theoretical approaches employed by a selection of established sociologists and anthropologists; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Evaluate at a basic level a range of social scientific arguments, methods of data collection and analysis of data 5. describe at a basic level a range of key concepts, theories and methods of anthropological/sociological analysis; 6. describe at a basic level some of the ways in which anthropological/sociological knowledge can be applied; 7. demonstrate a basic ability to evaluate your own cultural assumptions and those of a range of established social researchers; |
Personal and Key Skills | 8. plan and execute work independently, within supportive guidelines, to achieve acceptable outcomes; 9. discuss ideas and interpretations with others in a clear and reasoned way; 10. Demonstrate the capacity for structured argumentation both in writing and orally. |
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.
Sociology
- Abercrombie, Nicholas. 2004. Sociology: A Short Introduction . Oxford: Polity Press.
- Alexander, Jeffrey C., Kenneth Thompson, and Laura Desfor Edles (eds). 2012. A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology: Culture and Society in Transition (Second Edition) . Boulder, London: Paradigm Publishers.
- Giddens, Anthony (ed.) 1992. Human societies: An Introductory Reader in Sociology . Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Lemert, C. (2012) Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological life , 5 th edition, London: Rowman & Littlefields
- Halsey, A. H. 2004. A History of Sociology in Britain: Science, Literature and Society. Oxford Scholarship Online. [ebook]
Anthropology
- Barnard, Alan and Jonathan Spencer (eds). 1996. Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Routledge. [ebook]
- Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2001. Small Places, Large Issues . Pluto Press.
- Hendry, Joy. 2008. Sharing our Worlds: An Introduction to Anthropology (2nd revised edition) . Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kuper, Adam. 1996. Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School (3rd edition) . London and New York, Routledge.
- Moore, Henrietta and Todd Sanders (eds). 2006. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology . Blackwell.