Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC1049: Social Analysis II

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

You will be encouraged to develop both your own understanding of contemporary forms of social analysis and your capacity to engage critically with them, in such a way as to assess the relative relevance and usefulness of the various schools of thought for an analysis of some of key contemporary social issues and phenomena such as social order, inequalities, agency, inclusion and exclusion, marginalization, etc.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. explain and illustrate different modes of social analysis and their concomitant theoretical / conceptual frameworks; 2. exhibit awareness of the historical, social and political developments influencing social analysis; 3. think about social, psychological, personal and cultural issues in a specifically sociological manner;
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. reason and construct written arguments in a sociological manner; 5. use evidence, analysis and argument in a sociological manner; 6. read classic and contemporary textual material both in terms of historical situatedness and wider significance to the discipline;
Personal and Key Skills	7. formulate and discuss core theoretical ideas,and discussions and apply them to various social issues; and 8. challenge 'commonsense' assumptions about individual and social reality.

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
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
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).