Module code: SAC4017-B
Interpreting the Social World will provide you with the space and resources needed to explore your ideas on what it means to view the world from a range of sociological perspectives. Tapping upon experiential knowledgeand theoretical understandings you will be able to see more clearly possible ways in which the personaloverlaps with the interpersonal and public domains of life. Classical sociological theories will be enriched withcontributions by contemporary sociologists, critical thinkers, poststructuralists, feminists, postcolonial andcultural studies theorists. In addition to taught sessions, your knowledge will evolve in the context ofindependent exploration of current case studies in areas such as diversity, inclusion and equalities,politics,power and ideology, identity, culture and representation, globalisation, economy and consumer culture,digitisation and mass media, public empathy, cohesion and social movements, and more.
The module will allow you a deeper insight into the processes in which political, economic, social andculturalrelationships are produced in varied social contexts. Particular aims involve:
- Positioning Sociology within other disciplinary paradigms of knowledge production.
- Exploring key debates in Sociology (such as that between culture/nature and individual/society or structure/agency).
- Exploring different intellectual approaches to social inquiry.
- Applying analytical skills to real world experience and case studies.
- Practicing academic writing in the context of social inquiry.
- Understand the significance of social processes (political, economic and cultural) to the construction of socialreality.
- Debate alternative sociological understandings in the explanation of multiple an diverse social world phenomena.