Module SOC3107 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3107: Culture and Wellbeing
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following themes:
- Suffering and beyond
- Health
- Conviviality and mutuality
- Agency
- Responsibility
- Happiness
- Values
- Care
- Hope
- Work and creativity
- Wellbeing – a critical exploration
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 126 |
...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 | 11 | Weekly one-hour lectures |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 11 | Weekly one-hour seminars |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 2 | Lecture Exam revision session |
| Guided Independent Study | 36 | Readings for seminars and tutorials |
| Guided Independent Study | 10 | Preparation for seminar presentation |
| Guided Independent Study | 40 | Researching and writing the essay |
| Guided Independent Study | 40 | 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.
Corsín Jiménez, Alberto, ed. 2008. Culture and well-being: Anthropological approaches to freedom and political ethics. London: Pluto.
Ahmed, Sara. 2010. The promise of happiness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Diener, Edward, and Eunkook M. Suh. 2000. Culture and subjective well-being. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Fischer, Edward F. 2015. The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Jackson, Michael. 2011. Life within limits: Well-being in a world of want. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Robbins, Joel. 2013. “Beyond the suffering subject: Toward an anthropology of the good.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 19 (3): 447–62.
Skidelsky, Robert, and Edward Skidelsky. 2012. How much is enough? The love of money and the case for the good life. London: Penguin.
Suh, Eunkook M., and Shigehiro, Oishi. 2004. “Culture and subjective well-being: Introduction to the special issue.” Journal of Happiness Studies 5 (3): 219–22.
Thelen, T., 2015. Care as social organization: Creating, maintaining and dissolving significant relations. Anthropological Theory
Hallam, Elizabeth and Tim Ingold (eds.). 2007. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. Oxford: BERG
Kavedzija, Iza and Harry Walker. 2016. Values of Happiness: Towards an Anthropology of Meaning in Life. HAU Books, University of Chicago Press.
