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Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
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Module Offerings
4101SOC-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To provide an introduction to the rise 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 different theoretical perspectives.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Account for the rise and development of the sociological imagination in a variety of social and historical contexts.
2.
Comprehend and comment on selections from original sociological writings.
3.
Make preliminary distinctions between a range of sociological perspectives and their role in understanding social phenomena.
4.
Demonstrate an understanding of the 'sociological imagination' and the relationship between sociology and other academic disciplines.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The Sociological Imagination and the Sociological vocation; Founding Mothers and Fathers of Sociology, Structural functionalism, The Chicago School of Sociology; The relation between the sociological imagination and literary, biological and theological imaginations, Sociology and Two World Wars, British Sociology in the 1950's, Imperial Sociology and post-colonial perspectives on classical sociology.
Module Overview:
Through a history of sociology, explored through its major thinkers and their texts and activities, from the origins of the discipline to modern times, this module enables you to investigate the nature of the sociological vocation and the range of sociological imaginations developed by individual sociological thinkers and institutional schools of sociology. You will 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.
Through a history of sociology, explored through its major thinkers and their texts and activities, from the origins of the discipline to modern times, this module enables you to investigate the nature of the sociological vocation and the range of sociological imaginations developed by individual sociological thinkers and institutional schools of sociology. You will 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.
Additional Information:Syllabus is indicative and themes may be taught together or singularly.
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