SOCIOL 100
Issues and Themes in Sociology
Please note: this is archived course information from 2016 for SOCIOL 100.
Description
This course introduces sociology as a way of seeing and understanding the social world. Using the "sociological imagination" we investigate how society forms us as individuals and we in turn act collectively to construct and maintain the societies in which we live. Topics include family, sexuality, religion, work, technology, mass media and emotions as well as the sociological concepts of class, ethnicity and nationalism, power, identity and globalisation. Students are introduced to the pleasures of understanding the social contexts in which we make our lives through examples drawn from many different societies and cultures. At the same time we explore why sociological analyses and common sense ideas about society are often quite different from each other.
Availability 2016
Semester 1, repeated Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr David Mayeda
Reading/Texts
S. Matthewman, L. West-Newman, B. Curtis (2007). Being Sociological. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Assessment
Coursework + exam
Points
SOCIOL 100: 15 points
