Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC1049: Social Analysis II

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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
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).

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