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Module Offerings

4501BEASOC-SEP-PAR

Aims

1. To provide an introduction to the formation and history of the discipline of sociology 2. To develop students' understanding of the relationship of sociology to other academic disciplines. 3. To demonstrate the role of social context in understanding sociological ideas and their significance 4. to provide opportunities for students to engage with selected examples of the original writings of sociologists from the formative periods of the discipline

Learning Outcomes

1.
Account for the rise and development of the sociological imagination in a variety of social and historical contexts
2.
Demonstrate an understanding of the 'sociological imagination and vocation’, and the relationship between sociology and other academic disciplines.
3.
Make preliminary distinctions between a range of sociological perspectives and their role in understanding and contributing to social change
4.
Comprehend and comment on selections from original sociological writings

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:The Sociological Imagination and other disciplines; Classical Sociologists; The Origin of the British Social Survey: From Charles Booth to Survey of Merseyside; Urbanism and Rural Life; The Chicago School of Sociology (1895-1952); Founding Mothers of Sociology: Harriet Martineau, Beatrice Webb, Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Sociology and the Great War and the Russian Revolution; Rise of Structural Functionalism; British Sociology in the 1950’s; After the Crisis (1973-)
Additional Information:Through a history of sociology, explored through its major thinkers and their texts and activities, from the origins of the discipline to modern times, the module investigates the nature of the sociological vocation and the range of sociological imaginations developed by individual sociological thinkers and institutional schools of sociology to explore how sociology both reflects and critically engages with its social and cultural context and major historical events and processes, which it seeks to understand and often seeks to change. The ways in which sociology draws on, but also distances itself from, other forms of knowing, including theological, literary, biological, historical, psychological and visual imaginations, is kept in mind throughout and encountered in the selected texts on the module.

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