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Introduction to Poverty in the UK - Practicing Sociology (week 1)
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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 p...

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  • April 9, 2021
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  • 2020/2021
  • Class notes
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  • Week 1 – introduction to poverty

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  • practicing sociology
  • sociology
  • poverty
  • poverty in the uk
  • structure
  • agency
  • relative poverty

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Module: Practicing Sociology


Week 1 – Introduction to Poverty


Aim
 The focus will be on poverty. Why poverty? Interesting and well researched area.

 Understanding poverty from a range of different ways

 To continue exploring methods of research

 Ethics

 Developing your argumentation skills – how to make a strong case/argument.

 To think more critically

 To work out what the foundations of a problem are


Semester 2 Assessment
 Two assessments to complete for single honours students

 Report on Poverty in the UK – people’s attitudes, structural inequality, the
representation of it in the media; encourage people to report on poverty in a way
that you think is right to talk about.

 Literature Review – we will talk about this in week 3. You will be asked to read
two academic articles on poverty. You will be given a list of articles to choose
from. You are to pull two key themes from the articles.

 You can go 10% over the word count

 The due date is the same for all students


Why Poverty?
 Looking from a sociology perspective

 To understand how poverty comes about

 Poverty is pervasive – it’s everywhere and we can’t get rid of it.

 To explore the wider emotional issues

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