Module SOC2087 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC2087: Disability and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
The aim of the module is to introduce you to the social study of disability from sociological and anthropological perspectives. Disability & Society will introduce you to social situations of people with disabilities and their relationship to wider society. You will learn to critically contrast sociological and anthropological perspectives with other understandings of disability, and gain insight into how these frame social policy, education, employment, and human rights. The UK is home to a vibrant disability rights community, and you will explore its political and cultural impact. You will investigate through skill-building independent research, writing and presentations how disability is interconnected with issues such as stigma, gender, social exclusion, social movements, globalisation, war and conflict. You will significantly develop your knowledge and understanding of sociology as well as the associated skills and insights regarding cultural diversity and cross-cultural comparison. You will gain insight into social policy and social institutions while honing research and presentation skills.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate your knowledge about the current state of sociological and anthropological debate on disability in class discussion and course work; 2. demonstrate the capability of constructing complex arguments regarding specific issues in disability studies - including state policy; discrimination and social exclusion; human rights; education; reproduction; ethics, politics and care; standardization and 'counting'; lay/professional relations; identity and bodies; sport; violence; cross-cultural and cross-state approaches to disability - based on sociological, anthropological, and related literatures |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. critically evaluate contemporary disability studies related texts in sociology and anthropology; 4. display - in written and oral form - an understanding of the disciplines' relation to, and difference from, other approaches and explanations offered toward disability; 5. appreciate key issues relevant to the contemporary world, and develop critical, comparative and cross-cultural insight; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. demonstrate transferable skills in formulating, researching and addressing focused questions; 7. prepare focused and comprehensive written and oral presentations; 8. work independently and in collaboration with others; and 9. demonstrate an understanding of how state policy is framed and shapes the lives of a variety of citizens. |
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.
Ingstad, Benedict & Whyte, Susan R. 1995. Disability and Culture. University of California Press.
Shakespeare, Tom. 2006. Disability Rights and Wrongs. Routledge.
Paul, Dianne, 1995. Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present. New Jersey: Humanities Press.
Safford P. & Safford, E. 1995. A History of Childhood and Disability. NY: Teachers College Press.
Sacks, Oliver W. 2000. Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf. Vintage Press.
Titchkosky, Tanya. 2003. Disability, Self, and Society.Toronto, University of Toronto Press.
Tremain, Shelley (ed.). 2005. Foucault and the Government of Disability. University of Michigan Press.
Terry, Jennifer & Urla, Jaqueline (eds.) 1995. Deviant Bodies.Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1995.
Albrecht, Gary et al (eds). 2001. Handbook of Disability Studies FIX
Borsay, A. Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1759: A history of exclusion
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