Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
5505BEASOC-SEP-PAR
Aims
1. To provide a critical understanding of the origins of social and environmental conflicts in society.
2. To provide a critical understanding of the nature of social and environmental conflicts in society.
3. To provide a critical understanding of the consequences of social and environmental conflicts in society.
4. To explore a variety of case studies of contemporary social and environmental conflicts.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify and explain the origins of a range of social and environmental conflicts in the UK and other societies.
2.
Discuss and explain the forms that a range of social and environmental conflicts have taken in the UK and other societies.
3.
Discuss and explain the consequences of a range of social and environmental conflicts in the UK and other societies.
4.
Identify and explain the reasons for the resolution and non-resolution of social and environmental conflicts in the UK and other societies.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Exploration of social and environmental conflicts of prominence and interest at the time the module is taught utilising sociological analysis and imagination. A critical approach to conflicts will be taken so that students begin to challenge ‘common-sense assumptions’. Conflict will be explored in a thematic and case study format, and will include a mix of the following topics depending on their prominence at the time of course delivery. The people and environmental aspects of these topics will be addressed in terms of how and why they give rise to social conflict.
• Theories of social and environmental conflict
• Politics of economic policy and economic growth
• Growth, poverty and inequalities
• Welfare states and inequalities
• Industrialised housing production and housing access
• Industrialised food systems and production and food access
• Corporate power in late capitalism
• Consumer culture and class hatred
• Policy and politics of climate change
• Policy and politics of R&D and green technologies
• Oil addiction, peak oil and the carbon economy
• Gas addiction, fracking and new social movements
• Globalisation and the geographical management of carbon emission
• The war industry (the arms trade)
• Mobile societies (automobiles, cycling, walking, rambling)
• Happiness and anxiety
• Education, cultural capital and environmental identities
• Politics of religion and the earth
Additional Information:This module will critically examine a range of prominent social and environmental conflicts in order to enhance our understanding of the origins, nature and consequences of conflict in society as well as possibilities for their resolution.