Practicing Sociology SOC020C132 lecture notes bundle - Sociology degree

Notes on week 2 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered in these notes: Politics of Poverty, Formation of the welfare state (1945 – 1970-ish), Margaret Thatcher, 1979 – 1990, New Labour, 1997 – 2020, Austerity Britain, 2010 – 2015, 2015 – Prese...

Notes on week 3 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered in these notes: guidance on how to complete the report writing assessment on Poverty in the UK, how to make use of feedback from written assignments.

Notes on week 4 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: What is social policy? How does it get made (looking at Universal Credit as an example)? What is evidence-based policy making? What is ideology-based policy making? Launch of the Universal Credit, ...

Notes on week 5 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. This session looks at poverty with a theoretical approach. Topics covered: Zygmunt Bauman, liquid modernity, Globalization, The consumer society, Space and the Ghetto, Gentrification, Ghettoization, voluntary ghet...

Notes on week 6 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Representation of Poverty in the News, Do you believe everything you read in the news? If not, why? What criteria do you use to decide whether you believe something or not? Why is the news importan...

Notes on week 7 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology module. Topics covered: Visual Sociology and Ethics, Do photographs reflect reality? Images used in sociology, Photo Voice, Photo-elicitation of Poverty, Analysis image data (realism, semiology, denotation, connotation, mytholog...

Notes on week 8 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: General attitude towards poverty in the UK, qualitative research, quantitative research, sampling: snowball sampling and random sampling, issues and challenges in using quantitative data.

Notes on week 9 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology module. Topics covered: this session is about the literature review assignment that students need to complete to pass the module. What is a literature review? What do you think are the key features of a literature review? What a...

Notes on week 10 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Debating the Causes of Poverty, Debating, Why debate? Structuring your argument, How to debate well.