SOCIOL 100

Issues and Themes in Sociology

Please note: this is archived course information from 2015 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.

Provisional class limits information for 2015. Semester One enrolment is limited to 675 students and Semester Two enrolment is limited to 450 students. Admission is on a first applied, first admitted basis.

 

Availability 2015

Semester 1, repeated Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Professor Steve Matthewman
Lecturer(s) Professor Steve Matthewman

Reading/Texts

S. Matthewman, L. West-Newman, B. Curtis (2007). Being Sociological. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

SOCIOL 100: 15 points