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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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