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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC2050: Knowing the Social World

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

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Sessions will consist of lectures with question/answer and discussion, hands-on workshops and tutorials linked to honing research techniques.

From year to year, the module’s precise content may vary. The syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics::

• Introduction: Knowing the Social (perception and reality; epistemology and ontology; meaning; framing; ethics)
• Unobtrusive measures (physical traces; oblique perspectives, the ‘light footprint’, archives and numbers)
• Sensory methods (multi-sensory and cross-sensory issues, non-verbal, the material world, embodiment)
• Textual methods (poetics and metaphor, style, content, narrative and discourse analysis, voice)
• Talk and spoken discourse (personae, turn-taking, cueing and discourse strands and registers, ensemble)
• Interviews and focus groups (performance, leading, prompting, the self-effacing interviewer, what we say vs what we do?, cueing, follow-up, the micro-macro link)
• Ethnography and Participant Observation (materiality, embodiment, practice, setting, scenes, organisations, ethnomethods, experience)
• Practical Workshops (on sensory, textual, interview and participant observation)
• Portfolio Clinic (on the written assignments)

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

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