Module ANT2115 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT2115: Emotions, the Body, and the Social
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 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 topics:
- Historical contextualisation of emotions in sociology/social sciences - Emotion vs rationality/body vs mind
- Interdisciplinary engagement with theories of emotion, drawing from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology and sociology
- Affect theory
- Phenomenology and embodiment
- Emotions and traditional sociological themes (e.g. race, class, social order & change, power)
- Sociologies of emotions (e.g. road rage, emotional labour, manners)
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 activities | 22 | 11 x 2 hour weekly lectures/seminars (or 1 hour lecture + 1 hour seminar) |
Guided Independent Study | 48 | Reading and preparation for lectures and seminars |
Guided Independent Study | 30 | Preparation for summative case study |
Guided Independent Study | 50 | Preparation for summative research essay |
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.
Ahmed, Sara (2014) The Cultural Politics of Emotions, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Beatty, A (2019) Emotional Worlds Beyond an Anthropology of Emotions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Barbalet, Jack (2002) Emotions and Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell
Burkitt, Ian (2014) Emotions and Social Relations, Los Angeles: Sage
Damasio, A (1995) Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, London: Picador
Gregg & Seighworth (2010) The Affect Theory Reader, Durham: Duke University Press
James, William (1884) ‘What is an Emotion?’ Mind, 9:34
Katz, Jack (2002). How Emotions Work. Chicago: Chicago University Press
Matias, C E (2016) Feeling White Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education, Sense Publishers