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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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).
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.
Indicative Basic Reading List
Alan Bryman. 2008. Social Research Methods (3rd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Blaxter, L. and C. Hughes and M. Tight. 1996. How to Research. (Open University Press).
May, Tim. 2001 (3rd Edition). Social Research (Open University Press,).
Fish, William. 2010. Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction. London: Routledge
