Module SOC3035 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3035: Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module’s precise content is liable to annual variation. Nonetheless the module will cover some or all of the following themes:
- Classical social and cultural theoretical perspectives on deviance
- Subcultural studies in America
- Subcultural and Post subcultural studies in Britain
- Constructing deviants – exploring cultural representations and structures mobilized in the construction of deviant individuals, groups and behaviours
- Embodiment – sexuality, gender, disability
- Identity politics and the politics of deviance – deviance, inclusion and exclusion (normativity, boundary marking and making)
- Punishment – historical account exploring normative and moral constructions, understandings and responses to deviance
- Control and resistance – critical exploration of Foucault and ‘weak’ cultural approaches to deviance and normativity
- Performativity, ritual and deviance – collective and ritualistic expressions of and responses to deviance
- Risk and anomie – normative precariousness and social disorder in late modernity
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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24 | 126 | 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 | 11 | 11 x Weekly one-hour lectures |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 11 | 11 x Weekly one-hour seminars |
Scheduled Learning and teaching Activity | 2 | 1 x 2 hour Lecture Exam revision session |
Guided independent study | 36 | Readings for seminars and tutorials |
Guided independent study | 10 | Preparation for seminar presentation |
Guided Independent Study | 20 | Researching and writing the essay |
Guided Independent study | 60 | Readings and revisions for exams |
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.
Basic reading:
Alexander, J. (2003) ‘A Cultural Sociology of Evil’, in The Meanings of Social Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 109 – 120.
Anderson, T. (2015) Understanding Deviance: Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford: Routledge.
Ferrell, J. Hayward, K. Young, J. (2015) Cultural Criminology. London: Sage.
Freilich, M, Raybeck, D. and Savishinsky, J. (1991) Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives. London:Bergin and Garvey.
Furedi, F. (2013) Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Saville Scandal. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Goode, E. (2015) The Handbook of Deviance. West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons.
Lyng, S. (2005) Edgework: The Sociology of Risk Taking. Oxford: Routledge.
O’Neill and Seal, L. (2012) Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Reed, I. (2007) ‘Why Salem Made Sense: Culture, Gender and the Puritan Persecution of Witchcraft’, Cultural Sociology, 1(2): 209 – 234.
Seidman, S. ‘Defilement and Disgust: Theorizing the Other’, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 1(3): 3 – 25.
Smith, P. (2008) Punishment and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Smith, P. (2010) Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Terry, J. and Urla, J. (1995) Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture. Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Worthen, M. (2016) Sexual Deviance and Society: A Sociological Examination. London: Routledge.