Module SOC1020 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC1020: Contemporary Society: Field and Case Studies
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
This course approaches Contemporary Society by focusing on particular issues and topics including the following:
- The family
- Community
- Sexuality
- Madness and psychiatry
- Technology
- Consumption
- Social movements
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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27.5 | 122.5 | 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 | 16.5 | 11 x 1.5 hour weekly lecture |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | 11 x 1 hour weekly seminar |
Guided Independent study | 122.5 | Seminar readings, essay preparation and exam preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
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.
Delanty, G. (2010) Community, 2nd edition, London: Routledge
Weeks, J (2003) Sexuality (2nd Edition). London: Routledge
Cockerham, W.C. (2011). Sociology of Mental Disorder, 8th edition, London: Prentice Hall
Haugaard, M. (2002) Power: A Reader, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Sassatelli, R. (2007) Consumer Culture: History, Politics and Theory, London: Sage
Suchman, L. (2007) Human–Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, revised edn, New York: Cambridge University Press
Martell, L. (2010) The Sociology of Globalisation, Cambridge: Polity
Della Porta, D. and Diani, M. (2006) Social Movements: An Introduction, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell