Module SOC2050 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
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:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 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 | 8 Lectures 2 hours each |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 3 | 2 revision session 1.5 hours |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 3 | Tutorials 1 hour each |
Guided Independent study | 64 | Reading set texts and wider reading to inform formative assessment items |
Guided Independent study | 64 | Application of data collection /analysis for essay preparation |
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.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Questions asked in class by instructor | 10 minutes per session | 1-8 | Verbal |
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.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Critical Discussion of the theoretical and practical issues involved | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-8 | Written |
Practical application of data collection/analysis | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-8 | Written |
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.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Critical Discussion of the theoretical and practical issues involved | Critical Discussion of the theoretical and practical issues involved | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |
Practical application of data collection/analysis | Practical application of data collection/analysis | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |