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Module Offerings
4504BEASOC-JAN-PAR
Aims
1. To examine the relationship between sociology and culture.
2. To apply contemporary theory to the analysis of cultural texts and practices.
3. To develop students’ understandings of the sociological relevance of cultural texts.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Clearly situate the development of sociology in relation to culture.
2.
Understand a range of approaches to the sociological analysis of cultural texts and practices.
3.
Apply theoretical approaches covered in the module to examine and analyse a chosen case study cultural text.
4.
Recall and account for the utility of cultural theory to the sociological analysis of culture.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Cultural texts and the emergence of sociology
Understanding culture
Literature, poetry and sociology
Visual culture
Readerships and audiences
Language, culture and meaning
Introduction to semiotics and semiotic analysis
Signs and sign systems
Film semiotics
Semiotics of space
Semiotics of memory
Additional Information:This module begins with a longue durée examination of the relationship between sociology and culture, focusing on literary and cultural form and the emergence of sociology. The module then examines the emergence of culture as a domain of proper sociological enquiry, exploring the ways in which sociologists have approached the analysis of culture. Having contextualised the relationship between culture and sociology in these ways, the module moves on to explore a range of approaches to the sociological analysis of cultural texts and practices, focusing in particular on semiotics, to provide students with the skills to analyse a selected film case study.
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