Sociology L300 degree lecture and seminar notes bundle pack

Notes on week 6 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. Topics covered: Teams and Regional Behaviour, Erving Goffman's study on American college girls, Discrepant Roles, Different types of discrepant roles, Communication out of character, treatment of the absent, staging talk, team collusion, re...

Notes on week 7 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. Topics covered: Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Definition of a situation, Discrepant role example, Example of front and back region, Why does a team need to keep secrets? Example of a team and audience, Stigma – Notes on...

Notes on week 8 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. This session looked at stigma. Topics covered: Erving Goffman – Stigma, Social Identity, Types of Stigma, Managing Stigma, Treatment by Normals, Responses of the stigmatised, Interactions between normal and stigmatised, Sympathetic Others,...

Notes on week 9 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. Topics covered: Erving Goffman – Stigma, Three different types of identity, The discreditable, Moral career, Visibility, Personal Identity, Passing off as normal, Techniques of information control, Questions on documentary video ‘Hair Po...

Notes on week 10 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. This was the last class for the module where the tutor gave a recap of the topics that were covered over the course of 10 weeks. Topics covered: Goffman, Stigma, The Own & the Wise, Moral Career, Moral Career - Outcomes, Ego Identity, demin...

Notes on week 1 of the module Practicing Sociology. This a a Sociology degree module. This module focuses on poverty in the UK. Topics covered: Aim of this module, the assessments for the module, Why Poverty? How will we explore poverty? Structure, agency, Why are some people rich and some people po...

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.

Lecture notes on week 1, 2 and 3 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Lecture 1 gives an introduction to sociological theory: What is theory? What is sociological theory? Key Terms, What is theory for? How is theory created? Modernity, The racialisation of ca...

Seminar notes to week 1 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Introduction to theory, The Enlightenment, Structure/Agency, Jogging in the park - is that structure or agency? Person in a suit queuing for the bus to work - is that structure or ag...

Seminar notes to week 2 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: What happened to bring about capitalism? What was Marx’s understanding about societal change? Why would a false consciousness not necessarily be a bad thing for Marx? If Capitalism...

Seminar notes to week 3 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a sociology degree module. Topics covered: Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, The Souls of Black Folk, legacy of slavery according to Du Bois, Did Du Bois & Booker T. Washington have similar ideas about the future of black people...

Seminar notes to week 4 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a sociology degree module. Topics covered: Durkheim, Division of Labour, Why do you think that the division of labour was crucial to society for Durkheim? Quiz questions on Durkheim, Interdependence, the main differences betw...

Seminar notes to week 5 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Georg Simmel, Quiz questions on Georg Simmel, Web of Association, What are social forms for Simmel? Simmel’s Web of Group Affiliation.

Seminar notes on week 6 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Max Weber, verstehen, Weber identifies four different forms of social actions (tradition, affective, value-oriented & instrumental).

Seminar notes on week 7 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Michel Foucault’s Basic Concepts, Intellectual Influences, and Theoretical Orientation, quiz questions on Foucault, What is power? Criticisms, issues & questions raised by reading ...

Seminar notes on week 8 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: the notes focuses on early Feminism, What is Gender? The Goals of Feminist Sociology, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Seminar notes on week 9 of the module Understanding Social Change. This is a Sociology degree module. This document contains notes on: Anthony Giddens, What is modernity for Giddens? What is the problem with modernity for Giddens? Ontological security, How do we get round this problem of ontological...

This document contains notes made on the first lecture and seminar session for the module Society and Justice. This module is studied by Sociology and Criminology degree students. This module is taught for 4 weeks and there is a coursework assessment that students have to complete where they have to...

This document contains notes made on week 2 of lecture and seminar session for the module Society and Justice. This module is studied by Sociology and Criminology degree students. This module is taught for 4 weeks and there is a coursework assessment that students have to complete where they have to...

This document contains notes made on week 3 of the lecture and seminar session for the module Society and Justice. This module is studied by Sociology and Criminology degree students. This module is taught for 4 weeks and there is a coursework assessment that students have to complete where they hav...

This document contains notes made in week 4 of the lecture and seminar session for the module Society and Justice. This module is studied by Sociology and Criminology degree students. This module is taught for 4 weeks and there is a coursework assessment that students have to complete where they hav...