Contemporary sociology in a global age

Lecturer: Olga E. KuzinaClass teachers: Olga E. Kuzina, Elena N. Danilova

Course descriptionContemporary sociology in a global age is a two-semester course for the second year students designed to prepare students for the external examination of UoL. Throughout first semester, students will deal with questions relating to the nature of sociology; theories of global inequalities and topics concerned with subjectivity and identity, as well as with nation states, nationalism, war and conflict. Three main topics which will be covered in second semester are ‘Money and markets, consumption and work’, ‘crime and health in the global age’ and ‘Media and the new forms of social life’. The assessment of the students will be by the University of London (UoL) examinations at the end of the second semester or by internal examination (ICEF). Contemporary sociology in a global age is a supplementary discipline under world standards. It forms the basis of further studies in disciplines such as: economic sociology of popular finance, management, etc. An important contribution of this course to ICEF syllabi is made by developing academic essay writing skills which students will use for all further courses where these skills are necessary, as well as for course and diploma papers. The course is taught in English.

PrerequisitesStudents are supposed to be familiar with World Intellectual history or History of Western Philosophy, and English for academic writing.

Aims and objectivesThe aims of this course are to:

offer an overview of key issues in contemporary sociology apply core substantive and theoretical debates in sociology to a diverse

range of empirical societies, including your own.

It is important not to memorise information in the textbook or lecture materials but to understand the key ideas of different theories, to be able to compare and to apply them to society.

Learning outcomesAt the end of the course and having completed the essential reading and activities students should be able to:

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describe the nature of the sociological perspective and the major theories of contemporary society

offer a critical and creative reading of the set texts and be able to select relevant material cited by the authors selectively in your examination answers

evaluate the sociological debates surrounding the processes of globalization and be able to compare and criticise them.

Teaching methodsIn addition to the lectures, there are seminars. Participation in both is obligatory. During the seminars, it is expected that students come prepared to discuss a particular topic. Reading of the required material should be completed before the seminar. Short written assignments will be given for every seminar.

The main purpose of the seminars is the discussion of the reading material. Self-study will be the main method of work in this course. Students must conduct one and a half hours of self-study per each hour of lecture. Required readings are indicated in the seminar tasks. However, student will be expected to read at least one major Russian newspaper (such as Izvestia, Kommersant, Vedomosti, etc) as well as a weekly journal (Itogi, Expert, etc.).

AssessmentThis syllabus is designed based on the belief that far from being divorced from each other, testing and teaching are closely interrelated. A test is seen as a natural extension of classroom work, providing teacher and student with useful information that can serve as a basis for improvement.During the year, students will be tested 4 times:

• Assessment (November) - 90 min• Assessment (December) - 110 min• Assessment (April) - 90 min• Final Exam - 180 min

Assessment is a diagnostic test used to identify students strengths and weaknesses, intended to ascertain what further teaching is necessary.Final - an achievement/attainment test - designed to show mastery of the syllabus. All assessments will be made in a form of unseen written examination.The examination is split into two major sections. One section is made up of short answer questions. You are required to answer a number of these (see the Sample examination paper at the end of this subject guide). These questions are especially designed to test your knowledge of the subject. By‘knowledge’, we mean the core ideas and debates that have been carried out on the topic. You will be asked straightforward questions about each of

the six units. The questions are really carefully designed prompts to unlock what you have been working hard to study. However, please try to answer the question and avoid ‘spilling’ whatever you may know about the topic even it is irrelevant!The second part of the examination is made up of long answer, essay questions. It is vital that you prepare some topics in detail in order to answer the long questions well. The best strategy tends to be to select those topics you feel most interested in, passionate about or even perplexed by. Practise writing short answers that you find in the Sample examination papers to get a good sense of how much time you need to explain a point. Then you should attempt the essay length questions as practice so you really know how much (or little) you can write in order to provide a convincing and critical response to a question on the topic you have prepared.

University of London requirements

In the end of the second semester, students will take a University of London External Program Exam. University of London graders will grade this exam. In order to pass this exam successfully, students must receive 40% of points.

Higher School of Economics requirements

For those students who will not take a University of London External Pro- gram Exam a Final ICEF Exam will be provided. Final ICEF Exam is set to meet the same level of assessment as UoL exam.

Grading formula

Final grade for the Russian curriculum will be composed of three parts:

• University of London External Program Exam or Final ICEF Exam - 50%

• First semester final - 35%

– 20% - Seminars’ participation and home assignments– 30% - Test 1(November)– 50% - Test 2 (December)

• Second semester final - 15%

– 20% - Seminars’ participation and home assignments– 80% - Test 3 (April)

Essential reading

Anthony Giddens, Sociology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 7th edition, 2013)

Further reading

As long as students read the Essential reading they are then free to read around the subject area in any text, paper or online resource. Students will need to support

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their learning by reading as widely as possible and by thinking about how these principles apply in the real world. To help students read extensively, they have free access to the VLE and University of London Online Library http://www.external.shl.lon.ac.uk/index.php . A list of Further readings relevant to the subject matter covered in each chapter is given at the beginning of the chapters in the study guide. Also students can use HSE electronic resources http://library.hse.ru/e-resources/e-resources.htm If students want to have a remote access to them they have to follow the instructions here http://library.hse.ru/e-resources/ez/ezregulation_eng.htm

All obligatory and additional readings for the syllabus are available in the ICEF information system

Internet resources and databases

• Subject guide for the LSE course Principles of Sociology 1-4 chapters http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/programme_resources/lse/lse_pdf/subject_guides/sc1179_ch1-4.pdf

• University of London Exam papers and Examiners reports for the last year http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/community-support-resources/current-students/emfss-programme-resources/past-exam-papers

• Current course materials in the ICEF information system

Course outline

The sociological approach1. What this unit is about

What skills students will learn from studying this unit. The structure of the unit. Reading advice and other resources. Hours of study and use of the subject guide. The examination and examination advice.

2. Introduction to sociologyWhat is Sociology? In what respect sociology is different from other social disciplines? Is sociology a science or a commonsense? Sociological imagination. What are sociological problems? How the order of social life is possible? How do societies change? How are our lives as individuals shaped by the societies in which we live?

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapters 1 and 2).

Further readings

Mills, C. Wright. 2000 [1959]. The Sociological Imagination. 40th ed. New York: Oxford University Press. http://sitem.sdjzu.edu.cn/zhangpeizhong/Sociological-Imagination.pdf Berger, Peter L. 1963. Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective. New York: Anchor Books. http://sociology.morrisville.edu/readings/SOCI101/Berger-Invitation%20to%20Sociology.pdf Fox, K. (2005). Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. Boston: Hodder & Stoughton http :// ilmk . khspu . ru /? wpfb _ dl =171

3. Methodology of sociological researchTheory and methods. Ontological and epistemological assumptions. Objectivism and social constructivism in sociology. Quantitative and qualitative research designs in sociology. The founding fathers of sociology Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Chicago school, Parsons).

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 3).

Further readingsPeter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise its the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1966), pp. 51-55, 59-61. http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/undergraduate/introsoc/reality.html Cuff, E. C., Sharrock, W. W., & Francis, D. W. (1998). Perspectives in Sociology. Psychology Press. Part 1 (Marx, Weber, Durkheim) http://www.e-library.esut.edu.ng/uploads/pdf/3661078026-perspectives-in-sociology.pdf

Global inequalities 4. Class

Social stratification, social strata, class, ‘ascribed’ and ‘achieved’ characteristics, social status, ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ dimensions of class, different ways of measuring class positions (the Goldthorpe class schema), relationship between class inequality and race and gender, the global dimensions of class in relation to production and consumption, and transnational corporations (TNCs). Marx (class, mode of production, exploitation), Weber (class, status, party, Wright, Goldthrope, Bourdieu, Savage.

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 12).

Further readings

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Pakulski, J., & Waters, M. (1996). The reshaping and dissolution of social class in advanced society. Theory & Society, 25(5), 667–691. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00188101#page-1 Butler Т. The Debate over the Middle Classes // Social Change and the Middle Classes / Ed. T.Butler, M.Savage. L: UCL Press, 1995. P. 26-36.Bourdieu, Pierre. 1994. “Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste.” pp. 404-29 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Bourdieu, P. (1986) The forms of capital. In J. Richardson (Ed.) Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (New York, Greenwood), 241-258. https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm nSavage, M. et al. ‘A new model of social class: findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey’, Sociology, 2 April 2013. http://soc.sagepub.com/content/47/2/219.full.pdf+html Sklair, Leslie (2002) Democracy and the transnational capitalist class. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 581 (1). pp. 144-157. http :// www . uni - muenster . de / PeaCon / global - texte / r - m /144 sklair . pdf Leslie Sklair, 2000, “The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalization,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol:14 iss:1 https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/podzim2010/SOC783/Leslie_Sklair-transnational_capitalist_class.pdf Blau, Duncan, and Tyree. “Measuring the Status of Occupations.” Pp 255-259 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Marshall, G. and D. Firth ‘Social mobility and personal satisfaction: evidence from ten countries’, British Journal of Sociology 50(1) 1999, pp.28−48. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.1999.00028.x/pdf Saunders, P. Social class and stratification. London; New York Routledge, 1994. - 140 с. https :// www . academia . edu /4412316/ Peter _ Saunders _ Social _ Class _ and _ Stratificatio n _ not _ my _ research _ paper _ Saunders, P. Unequal but fair? A study of class barriers in Britain. (London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit, 1996) http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cw28.pdf Scott, J. (2002). Social Class and Stratification in Late Modernity. Acta Sociologica, 45(1), 23–35. http://asj.sagepub.com/content/45/1/23.full.pdf+html Sennett, R. The corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism. London: W.W. Norton, 1998Breen, R. and J. Goldthorpe ‘Class inequality and meritocracy: a critique of Saunders and an alternative analysis’, British Journal of Sociology 50 1999, pp.1−27. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.1999.00001.x/pdf

Breen, R. (2001). A Weberian approach to class analysis. From https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/Found-c2.PDF Grusky, David B. “The contours of social stratification.” Pp. 3-51 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Marx, Karl. 2008. “Classes in Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism”; “Ideology and Class”; pp. 91-103 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Weber, Max. “Class, Status and Party”, “Status Groups and Classes.” pp. 132-145 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Mosca, Gaetano. “The ruling class”, pp. 155-61 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Mills, C. Wright. 1952. The Power Elite. Pp. 202-212 in in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.Sørensen, Aage B. “The basic concepts of stratification research: Class, status, and power.” pp. 229-40 in David B. Grusky, 2001. Social Stratification in Sociological Perspective. Westview Press. 2nd edition.

Test your knowledge and understanding1. What does stratification mean?2. What does a ‘meritocracy’ refer to?3. Is occupation the only determinant of a person’s class?4. What do the concepts ‘symbolic capital’, ‘social capital’ and ‘cultural capital’ mean?5. Describe one way in which class and gender intersect?6. What is an ‘elite’?7. Why is consumption relevant to class?

5. Race Sociological definitions of race and ethnicity, racial discrimination historically and in the contemporary global world, old (biological) racism and new (cultural) racism, multiple racisms and institutional racism, racialisation; group closure; allocation of resources; conflict theory, social constructionism; differential racialisation; and ‘critical race theory’.

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 16).Further readingsCohen, R. and P. Kennedy Global sociology. (London: Palgrave, 2007) second edition, pp. 157-163.

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Muir, H. ‘Post-racial Britain and what lies beneath the surface’, The Guardian, 13 October 2013. Available at: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/13/post-racial-britain-beneath-the-surface-bbc-inside-out Back, L. New ethnicities, multiple racisms: young people and transcultural dialogue. (London: UCL Press, 1995)Macpherson, S.W. The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Cm 4262-I (London: HMSO, 1999) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-stephen-lawrence-inquiry Obama, B. ‘America is not a post-racial society: In the wake of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, we should ask: am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can?’, The Guardian, 19 July 2013. Available at: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/19/america-not-post-racial-society-barack-obama Hicks, R. ‘From “classless society” to “post-racial society”: how the Left exchanged a noble ideal for an ignoble one’, The Telegraph, 19 February 2011. Available at: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/philosopherkin/rogerhicks/466/from-%E2%80%9Cclassless-society%E2%80%9D-to-%E2%80%9Cpost-racial-society%E2%80%9D/ Cox, O.C. Class, caste and race: a study in social dynamics. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1959) https://ia600504.us.archive.org/23/items/casteclassracest00coxo/casteclassracest00coxo.pdf Delgado, Richard and Stefancic, Jean, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (July 15, 2010). New York University Press, 2011; Seattle University School of Law Research Paper No. 10-22. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640643 Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (1993). Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography. Virginia Law Review, 79(2), 461–516. http://doi.org/10.2307/1073418 Ian F. Haney-López, Social Construction of Race in Delgado R., Stefancic J. Critical race theory: An introduction. – NYU Press, 2012. https://sites.oxy.edu/ron/csp19/readings/HaneyLopez-SocialConstructionOfRace.pdf Patricia Hill Collins and John Solomos Introduction: Situating Race and Ethnic Studies In The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies. (2010) (1 edition). Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE Publications Ltd. http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/33600_Hill_Collins.pdf

Test your knowledge and understanding1. How do sociologists think that race is different from ethnicity?2. Could you define a ‘race relations situation’?3. What is ethnocentrism?4. How does critical race theory differ from race science?5. Why are some people critical of the idea of a ‘raceless’ society?

6. What is institutional racism?

6. EthnicityMigration, ‘new ethnicities’ and situational identity, ethnic inequality, globalisation of ethnicity, models of multi-ethnic societies in industrial nations, ethnic conflict, assimilation and integration, ethnicity and health, global differences in health, ‘mobilities research’.

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 16).

Further readingsCohen, R. (2008). Global Diasporas: An Introduction (2 edition). Chapter 8. London: Routledge. http://prodiasporaromana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Cohen-2008-Global-Diasporas-An-Introduction-2n-Bookos.org_.pdf BRUBAKER, R. (2002). Ethnicity without groups. Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 43(2), 163–189. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/brubaker/Publications/23_Ethnicity_Without_Groups.pdf Urry, J. Mobilities. (Cambridge: Polity, 2007)Collins, P. H., & Solomos, J. (2010). The SAGE Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies. SAGE https://books.google.ru/books?id=VQ8L-5Pb2moC&pg=PA86&dq=Racial+and+ethnic+studies+today+pdf&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIms7qyrScxwIVx5MsCh0Q2wly#v=onepage&q=Racial%20and%20ethnic%20studies%20today%20pdf&f=false https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=VQ8L-5Pb2moC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=ru&pg=GBS.PA20.w.1.2.0 Mann, M. The dark side of democracy: explaining ethnic cleansing. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) http://www.untag-smd.ac.id/files/Perpustakaan_Digital_1/DEMOCRACY%20The%20Dark%20Side%20of%20Democracy%20Explaining%20Ethnic%20Cleansing.pdf Horowitz, D. The deadly ethnic riot. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Chapter 13. http :// www . columbia . edu / itc / journalism / stille / Politics %20 Fall %202007/ readings %20 weeks %206-7/ Horowitz ,%20 Calculus %20 of %20 Passion . pdf Horowitz, D. Structure and Strategy in Ethnic Conflict, Washington, D.C., April 20–21, 1998. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/84797-1251813753820/6415739-1251813951236/horowitz.pdf

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1. How do race and ethnicity differ?2. What is ‘situational identity’?3. List some ‘push factors’ and some ‘pull factors’ that have contributed to migration.4. How does ethnicity relate to health?5. List three models of multi-ethnic integration and describe one in detail.6. What is a ‘diaspora’ and why do sociologists find the term useful in research?

7. Gender

Sex and gender, socialisation of gender, gender inequality and the history of feminisms, gender in a global context, including human trafficking, masculinities, prostitution and ‘sex work’. Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 15).

Further readingsLaqueur, T. Making sex: body and gender from the Greeks to Freud. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990) https://seminarioatap.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/thomas_laqueur_making_sex_body_and_gender_from_bookos-org.pdf Germany allows 'indeterminate' gender at birth www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24767225 Friedan, B. The feminine mystique. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique.pdf Juliet Mitchell. Women’s Estate. Penguin 1971. pp 60-75 https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/mitchell-juliet/womens-estate.htm Firestone, S. The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution. (London: Jonathon Cape, 1970) https://teoriaevolutiva.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/firestone-shulamith-dialectic-sex-case-feminist-revolution.pdf Greer, G. The female eunuch. (London: Harper Perennial, 1970) https://seminariolecturasfeministas.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/germaine-greer-the-female-eunuch.pdf https://www.marxists.org/archive/reed-evelyn/1971/female-eunuch.htm https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/94985-the-female-eunuch Krolløke, C. and A. Sørensen Gender communication theories and analysis: from silence to performance. (London: Sage, 2006)

Tasker, Y. and D. Negra Interrogating postfeminism: gender and the politics of popular culture. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007)Walby, S. Theorizing patriarchy. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990) https://libcom.org/files/Theorizing%20Patriarchy%20-%20Sylvia%20Walby.pdf Barash, D. Sociobiology: the whisperings within. (New York: Harper & Row, 1979)Elias, N. ‘On human beings and emotions: a process-sociological essay’, Theory, Culture and Society 4(2–3) 1987, pp.339–61. http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/4/2/339.full.pdf+html Scott, J. (2011). Governing prostitution: Differentiating the bad from the bad. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 23, 53–72 http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/CICrimJust/2011/17.pdf Sarah Kingston and Teela Sanders Introduction New Sociologies of Sex Work in Perspective in Hardy, K., Kingston, M. S., & Sanders, T. (Eds.). (2012). New sociologies of sex work. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9780754699682_sample_948158.pdf Connell, R. W., & Messerschmidt, J. W. (2005). Hegemonic masculinity rethinking the concept. Gender & society, 19(6), 829-859. http://www.engagemen-me.org/sites/default/files/Hegemonic%20Masculinity-%20Rethinking%20the%20Concept%20(R.%20W.%20Connell%20and%20James%20W.%20Messerschmidt).pdf Raewyn Connell is the most prominent masculinities theorist in the world. Here you can find 22 of her key journal articles. http://www.xyonline.net/content/connell-collection-papers

Test your knowledge and understanding1. How does gender differ from sex?2. What were first-wave feminists fighting to gain?3. Why was second-wave feminism described as radical?4. How does third-wave feminism differ in its methods from the earlier feminisms?5. What does Connell mean by the ‘gender regime’, ‘gender relation’ and ‘gender order’?6. How old is prostitution?7. Are men and women paid the same? Provide an example from one nation and explain how this is measured.

8. FamilyMarriage and divorce, ‘traditional’ family and an account of its conceptual history, forms of family, global families, gender and work in the family, family in current debates about values and culture.Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 10).

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Further readings

Gittins, D. The family in question: changing households in familiar ideologies.(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993)Friedan, B. The feminine mystique. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique.pdf Goode, W. World revolution in family patterns. (New York: Free Press, 1963)Therborn, G. Between sex and power. (London: Routledge, 2004) http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134494590_sample_536004.pdf Office of National Statistics. Social trends 40. (London: HMSO, 2010) http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/social-trends-rd/social-trends/index.html Morgan, P. Family policy: family changes. (London: CIVITAS, 2006) http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/FamilyPolicyFamilyChangesFeb06.pdf Dennis, N. and G. Erdos Families without fatherhood. (London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit, 1992) http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs03.pdf Blankenhorn, D. Fatherless America. (New York: Basic Books, 1995)Hobson, B. Making men into fathers: men, masculinities, and the social politics of fatherhood. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) http://english.360elib.com/datu/H/EM015190.pdf ALCOCK, P., & Crompton, R. (2009). Class and stratification. Journal of Social Policy, 38, 361-362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279408002882 Shelton, B. Women, men and time: gender differences in paid work, housework, and leisure. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992) Hochschild, A. The second shift: working parents and the revolution at home. (New York: Viking, 1989) http://www.unc.edu/~kleinman/handouts/second%20shift.pdf

Test your knowledge and understanding

1. What is the difference between a family and a household?2. What is the traditional family?3. What forms of marriage are found cross-culturally, and which is the most prevalent?4. Why has the loss of extended family networks made a difference to how people live now?5. How has the term ‘absent father’ changed over the last 100 years?6. Is divorce on the rise in industrialised countries or not? What are the problems with taking the divorce rate as an indication that marriage is under threat?7. What is domestic labour and why does it matter?

9. ReligionConceptual and operational definitions of religion, secularisation thesis, global landscape of religion, forms of religiosity, fundamentalism and evangelism.

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 17).

Further readingsAldridge, A. Religion in the contemporary world: a sociological introduction. (Cambridge: Polity, 2007) second edition. Beckford, J. Social theory and religion. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/17268_00_Beckford_Intro.pdf http://archives.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/Beckford-vagaries-2.pdf Bruce, S. Religion in the modern world: from cathedrals to cults. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).Bruce, S. Religion and modernisation. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).Bruce, S. Fundamentalism. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000).Finke, R. and R. Stark The churching of America, 1776−1990: winners and losers in our religious economy. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992). http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/3/318.full.pdf Martin, D. Tongues of fire: the explosion of Protestantism in Latin America. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).McGuire, M. Religion: the social context.Stark, R. and W. Bainbridge ‘Towards a theory of religious commitment’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19 1980, pp.114−28. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1386246.pdf Stark, R. and W. Bainbridge A theory of religion. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987).Vertovec, S. and C. Peach Islam in Europe: the politics of religion and community.(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997). Weber, M. The sociology of religion. (Boston: Beacon, 1963). http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Reader.102/PESC.I.pdf Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Scribner's Press, 1958, pp. 47 - 78. http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Weber/PECAP.HTML

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Max Weber in SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY IN THE CLASSICAL ERA http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/30609_4.pdf Spickard, J. V. (2006). What is happening to religion? Six sociological narratives. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, 19(1), 13-29. http://tapir.pdc.no/pdf/NJRS/2006/2006-01-2.pdf Goldstein, W. S. (2012). Sociological Theory of Religion. Religion Compass, 6(7), 347–353. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2012.00362.x

Test your knowledge and understanding

1. What is an exclusive definition of religion?2. What is at least one type of religious orientation toward the world, and what does it entail?3. How do ‘tribes’ differ from earlier churches?4. Is it possible to have a church with no God?5. Discuss two ways to study religion.6. Has there been a greater trend toward secularisation, or not, in the past two decades?7. What is religious fundamentalism?

10. The life courseSocial and biological aspects of the life course, The life course as a social process, intersectionality, birth cohorts, generations, stages of the life course: childhood, adulthood and older age, age roles, social construction of age phases , nature of childhood, teenage and youth culture, social gerontology, social age, sociology of death and dying, ageing.

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 9).

Further readingsArber, S. and C. Attias-Donfut Equity and solidarity across the generations in Arber, S. and C. Attias-Donfut (eds) The myth of generational conflict: the family and state in ageing societies. (London: Routledge, 2007), pp.1-12 http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134621293_sample_479516.pdf Blytheway, B. Unmasking age: the significance of age for social research. (Bristol: Policy Press, 2007) .Earle, S. et al. (eds) Death and dying: a reader. (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2009). http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/23560_01_Earle_(Reader)_Introduction.pdf

Gilleard, C. and P. Higgs Contexts of ageing: class, cohort and community.(Cambridge: Polity, 2005).Gilleard, C., & Higgs, P. (2015). Connecting Life Span Development with the Sociology of the Life Course: A New Direction. Sociology, pp. 1-15. http://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515577906 Green, L. Understanding the life course: sociological and psychological perspectives. (Cambridge: Polity, 2010).Howarth, G. Death and dying: a sociological introduction. (Cambridge: Polity, 2006). http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/article/view/4188/3439 Johnson, M. (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of age and ageing. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/26327/frontmatter/9780521826327_frontmatter.pdf Timonen, V. Ageing societies: a comparative introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/14717794201000010 Hutchison, E. D. (2010). A life course perspective. Dimensions of human behavior: The changing life course, 3-38. http :// www . sagepub . com / sites / default / files / upm - binaries /36521_ CLC _ Chapter 1. pdf

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1. Explain intersectionality.2. Describe one aspect of childhood that people assert means a qualitative change from one construction of childhood to another.3. What is a birth cohort and why have sociologists paid attention to these?4. What are youth cultures, and when did sociologists start to pay attention to them?5. What is social gerontology?6. Describe social age.7. How is bereavement socially constructed?

11. Nation-states, nationalism, war and conflict

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 13).

Further readingsAkintoye, S. Emergent African states: topics in twentieth century African history. (London: Longman, 1977).

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Anderson, B. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. (London: Verso, [1983] 2006). http://rebels-library.org/files/imagined_communities.pdf Archer, R. Why is there no Labour Party in the United States? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). http://homepages.uconn.edu/~mug05001/gurbuz_BJS.pdf Evans, P. et al. Bringing the state back in. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) . http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/85004703.pdf Gellner, E. Nations and nationalism. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983).http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~plam/irnotes07/Gellner1983.pdf Hobsbawm, E. The age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914−1991.(London: Michael Joseph, 1994). https :// keimena 11. files . wordpress . com /2014/01/ hobsbawm _ nations _ and _ national ism _ since _1780. pdf Lukes, S. Power: a radical view. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004) second edition. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1458086.files/lukes_power.pdf McAdam, D. Comparative perspectives on social movements: political opportunities, mobilizing structures and cultural frameworks. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/eZines/social_movements_eZine.pdf Mann, M. The sources of social power. Volume 2: The rise of classes and nation- states. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) second edition. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/mann/Doc6.pdf Olson, M. The logic of collective action: public goods and the theory of groups. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974). http://outsidethetext.com/archive/Olson.pdf Skocpol, T. Protecting soldiers and mothers: political origins of social policy in the United States. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995) . http://articles.latimes.com/1993-09-26/books/bk-39373_1_welfare-state Smith, A. The ethnic origins of nations. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986). https://smerdaleos.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/198589879-anthony-smith-the-ethnic-origins-of-nations.pdf Tilly, C. The formation of nation-states in Western Europe. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975). http://markdaku.com/poliscinotes/?p=86 Chapter 1 http://psi424.cankaya.edu.tr/uploads/files/Tilly,%20Reflections%20on%20State%20Making.pdf

Chapter 9 http://www.bresserpereira.org.br/Terceiros/Cursos/09.Tilly,Charles.Western_State_Making.pdf Weiss, L. The myth of the powerless state. (Cambridge: Polity, 1998). http://newleftreview.org/static/assets/archive/pdf/NLR22101.pdf

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1. What is an imagined community?2. How did the developing world become a group of nation-states?3. Why is sovereignty important to debates about globalisation?4. What is the difference between a nation and a state?5. What are some arguments made for the belief that the world is globalising?

12. Conflict and warfareTypes of human conflict, degenerate war, post-violence societies, genocide, terrorism and freedom movements,

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 23).

Further readings

Barber, B. Fear’s empire: war, terrorism, and democracy. (London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003). http :// web . archive . org / web /20060927152336/ http :// www . cceia . org / resources / transcripts /1067. html http :// www . logosjournal . com / banks . pdf Bauman, Z. Modernity and the Holocaust. (Cambridge: Polity, 1991). http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/courses/290h_09/readings/bauman_intro.pdf Butler, J. Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence. (London: Verso, 2006). http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/uploads/media/butler-judith-precarious-life.pdf Cohen, S. States of denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering. (Cambridge: Polity, 2001). http://www.observatoriodeseguranca.org/files/state%20of%20denial.pdf

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Devji, F. Landscapes of the jihad: militancy, morality, modernity, crises in world politics. (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2005).Gellately, R. and B. Kiernan (eds) The spectre of genocide: mass murder in historical perspective. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2002031553.pdf Hayner, P. Unspeakable truths: transitional justice and the challenge of truth commissions. (London: Routledge, 2001). file:///C:/Users/kuzina/Desktop/Nation-states,%20nationalism,%20war%20and%20conflict/Hayner,%20%20P.%20Unspeakable%20truths%20transitional%20%20justice%20and%20the%20challenge%20of%20truth%20commissions%202001.pdf Kalyvas, S. N. The logic of violence in civil war. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.163.6348&rep=rep1&type=pdf Meierhenrich, J. Genocide: a reader. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).Smith, K. Genocide and the Europeans. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2010).Tilly, C. The politics of collective violence. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/2002074067.pdf Weitz, E. D. A century of genocide: utopias of race and nation. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).Wilkinson, I. Suffering: a sociological introduction. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005). From the Sociology of Risk to a Critical Sociology of Suffering Iain Wilkinson, University of Kent (Draft paper for presentation at the conference of the SCARR Network, January 28th – 29th 2005 http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/events/finalpapers/wilkinson.pdf

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1. Do sociologists think that war is abnormal?2. What is the difference between an old war and a new war, according to Kaldor?3. What is a degenerate war?4. What are the steps that are needed to achieve peace in a society that has experienced conflict?5. Are genocide and war different?6. What is terrorism and how does it differ from freedom movements?

13. Money and markets, consumption and workNew economic sociology, social embeddedness, social conception of markets, resource dependence, sociology of money, trust, earmarking

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 7).

Further readingsCallon, M. Laws of markets. (Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, 1998).Carruthers, B. and L. Ariovich Money and credit: a sociological approach. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010).Cassin, Y. and J. Collier Capitals of capital: the rise and fall of financial centres.(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Dodd, N. The sociology of money: economics, reason and contemporary society.(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).Edwards, P. and J. Wajcman The politics of working life. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).Fligstein, N. The architecture of markets: an economic sociology of twenty-first century capitalist societies. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001). http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134357?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Granovetter, M. and R. Swedberg (eds) The sociology of economic life. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001).Guttmann, R. Cybercash: the coming era of electronic money. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). http://www.univ-paris13.fr/cepn/IMG/pdf/guttmann.pdf Ingham, G. The nature of money: new directions in political economy. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).Itoh, M. and C. Lapavitsas Political economy of money and finance. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998).Knorr-Cetina, K. and A. Preda (eds) The sociology of financial markets. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/wmmaurer/files/2011/03/Maurer-AltFinance.pdf Konings, M. (ed.) The great credit crash. (London: Verso, 2010).Kurtzmann, J. The death of money: how the electronic economy has destabilized the world’s markets and created financial chaos. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993) .Lapavitsas, C. The social foundations of markets, money and credit. (London: Routledge, 2005). http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134368808_sample_802340.pdf

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Lounsbury, M and P. Hirsch Markets on trial: the economic sociology of the US financial crisis. (Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2011). http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/633002550.pdf Richard Swedberg The structure of confidence and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in Lounsbury, M and P. Hirsch Markets on trial: the economic sociology of the US financial crisis. (Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2011).http://www.soc.cornell.edu/faculty/swedberg/2010%20The%20Structure%20of%20Confidence%20and%20the%20Collapse%20of%20Lehman%20Brothers.pdf MacKenzie, D., F. Muniesa and L. Siu Do economists make markets? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007). http://wtf.tw/ref/mackenzie.pdf Nee, V. and R. Swedberg (eds) The economic sociology of capitalism. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013). http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7995.pdf Pinch, T. and R. Swedberg (eds) Living in a material world: economic sociology meets science and technology studies. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008). https://archivocienciassociales.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/trevor_pinch_richard_swedberg_living_in_a_material_world_economic_sociology_meets_science_and_technology_studies_inside_technology__20082.pdf Slater, D. and F. Tonkiss Market society: markets and modern social theory. (Cambridge: Polity, 2001).Smelser, N. and R. Swedberg (eds) The handbook of economic sociology. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).Strange, S. Mad money: when markets outgrow governments. (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1998). http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2107/1/WRAP_Strange_wp1898.pdf Zelizer, V. The social meaning of money: pin money, paychecks, poor relief and other money. (New York: Basic Books, 1997).

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1. What is social embeddedness?2. How do classical sociology and the new economic sociology differ?3. How do performativists see markets as operating?4. Why is trust important in economic life?5. Why are TNCs significant in economic life?6. How is money changing now?7. What is earmarking?

14. Consumption and work

Conspicuous consumption, consumerism, occupation economy, informal economy, social organisation of work, division of labour, economic interdependenceEssential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 7).

Further readingsBourdieu, P. Distinction: a social critique of taste. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968).Du Gay, P. (ed.) Production of culture, cultures of production. (London: Sage Productions, 1997).Couldry, N. Inside culture: art and class in the American home. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).Eagleton, T. The idea of culture. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000).Featherstone, M. and S. Lash (eds) Spaces of culture: city-nation-world. (London: Sage, 2005).Grint, K. The sociology of work. (Cambridge: Polity, 2005) third edition.Hakim, C. Key issues in women’s work: female diversity and the polarisation of women’s employment. (London: Routledge, 2004) second edition.Hannerz, U. Cultural complexity. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).Harvey, D. The condition of postmodernity. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991).Jackson, P. and M. Lowe et al. (eds) Commercial cultures: economies, practices, spaces. (Oxford: Berg 3PL, 2000).McRobbie, A. In the culture society: art, fashion and popular music. (London: Routledge, 1999).Moses, K. ‘China leads the waste recycling league’, The Guardian, 14 June 2013; available at: www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/14/waste-trade-china-recycling-rubbish Scott, A.J. The cultural economy of cities. (London: Sage, 2000).Scott, A. J. (2010). Cultural economy and the creative field of the city. Geografiska Annaler: series B, human geography, 92(2), 115-130. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32108/1/Cultural_economy_and_the_creative_field.pdf Sennett, R. The fall of public man. (London: Penguin, 2003).Slater, D.R. Consumer culture and modernity. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997). http://www.lmc.gatech.edu/~herrington/iparts/slater.html Smith, M. Culture: reinventing the social sciences. (Basingstoke: Open University Press, 2000).Storey, J. (ed.) Cultural theory and popular culture: a reader. (London: Routledge, 1998).

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https :// uniteyouthdublin . files . wordpress . com /2015/01/ john _ storey _ cultural _ theory _ an d _ popular _ culturebookzz - org . pdf Tilly, C. and C. Tilly Capitalist work and labor markets. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).Tilly, C. and Tilly, C. (1994) ‘Capitalist Work and Labour Markets’, pp. 283–313 in N.J. Smelser and R. Swedberg (eds) Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press .Williams, R. Culture and society: 1780−1950. (Nottingham: Spokesman Books, 2013). https://ia802708.us.archive.org/32/items/culturesociety17001850mbp/culturesociety17001850mbp.pdf

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1. What did the Frankfurt theorists say about the role of consumption in society?2. How are global flows patterned in relation to consumption?3. What is the ‘treadmill of production’?4. What is the division of labour?5. What is economic interdependence?6. Is flexible labour better for employees?

15. Crime Deviance, equilibrium of deviance, sanctions, nonconformity , anomie, delinquency, labelling theory, master status, criminal careers, deviancy amplification, organised crime, piracy, restorative justice, role of prisons.

Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 21).

Further readings

Bottoms, A. ‘Place, space, crime and disorder’ in Maguire, M. et al. (eds) The Oxford handbook of criminology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Chapter 17.Cochrane, A. and D. Talbot (eds) Security: welfare, crime and society. (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2008).Carrabine, E. et al. Criminology: a sociological introduction. (London: Routledge, 2008) . http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10098945&p00=criminology%3A%20sociological%20introduction Downes, D. and Rock, P. Understanding deviance. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) fourth edition.

Evans, K. Crime prevention: a critical introduction. (London: Sage, 2011). http://policing.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/10/11/police.par050.full.pdf+html Felson, M. and R. Boba Crime and everyday life. (London: Sage, 2010). http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10833243&p00=crime%20everyday%20life Graham, P. and J. Clarke ‘Dangerous places: crime and the city’ in Muncie, J. and E. McLaughlin (eds) The problem of crime. (London: Sage, 2001) second edition.Maguire, M. et al. The Oxford handbook of criminology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) fourth edition. Introduction, Chapters 1, 14 http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199590278.do Mooney, G. and S. Neal (eds) Community: welfare, crime and society. (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2009).Pinkney, Sharon and Saraga, Esther (2009). Communities and social mobilisations. In: Mooney, Gerry and Neal, Sarah eds. Community: Welfare, Crime and Society. DD208 Welfare, Crime and Society. Open University Press, pp. 135–167. http://oro.open.ac.uk/29204/2/8E1E280E.pdf Pile, S. et al. (eds) Unruly cities: order/disorder. (London: Routledge, 1999). http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134636273_sample_823508.pdf Pitts, J. Reluctant gangsters: the changing face of youth crime. (Cullumpton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008). https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Documents/reluctant-gangsters-final.pdf Tierney, J. Criminology: theory and context. (Harlow: Pearson, 2010) third edition. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10823869&p00=criminology%3A%20basics Wacquant, L. Urban outcasts: a comparative sociology of advanced marginality. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008). http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10691547&p00=urban%20outcasts Walklate, S. Criminology: the basics. (London: Routledge, 2011) second edition.Zukin, S. Naked city: the death and life of authentic urban places. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10449709 Test your knowledge and understanding1. What is the importance of nonconformity in understanding good and bad behaviour?2. What were the social functions that Durkheim attributed to deviance?3. What do delinquents rebel against and why?4. What is the equilibrium of deviance?5. What is the relationship between a master status and a criminal career?6. How is organised crime today different from how it was in the past?

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7. How is piracy different from how it was in the past?8. What is the role of prisons meant to be, and does it serve this role?

16. Global health and medicineBiomedical model of health, public health policy, iatrogenesis, medicalisation, impairment and disability, individual model of disability, stigma.Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 11).

Further readingsBalabanova, D. et al. ‘What can global health institutions do to strengthen health systems in low-income countries’, Health Research Policy and Systems 8 2010, p.22. http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/pdf/1478-4505-8-22.pdf Buse, K. et al. (eds) Making sense of global health governance: a policy perspective. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). http://www.ghgj.org/Yuzen_book%20review.pdf http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/mia/users/Rachelle_Cloutier/public/Kickbusch%20GH%20Diplomacy/Buse%20et%20al%20Kickbusch%20Chapter%2015%20(Moving%20Global%20Health%20Governance%20Forward).pdf Cooper, A. and J. Kirton (eds) Innovations in global health governance. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). https://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Moving-Health-Sovereignty-in-Africa-Intro.pdf Foucault, M. The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception. (New York: Vintage Books, [1973] 1994). https://onedrive.live.com/download?resid=638D830EF2B596DF!4343 Kerr, A. Genetics and society: a sociology of disease. (London: Routledge, 2004).Konrad, M. Narrating the new predictive genetics: ethics, ethnography and science. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).Labonte, R. et al. (eds) Globalisation and health: pathways, evidence and policy. (London: Routledge, 2012).Lee, K. et al. (eds) Health policy in a globalising world. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2001035097.pdf Martin, E. Bipolar expeditions: mania and depression in American culture. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007). http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8502.pdf https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anq/summary/v081/81.2.grinker.html Nettleton, S. The sociology of health and illness. (Cambridge: Polity, 2006).

Nelson, A. Body and soul: the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alltitles/docDetail.action?docID=10519771&p00=body%20soul%3A%20black%20panther%20party%20fight%20against%20medical%20discrimination Nguyen, V. The republic of therapy: triage and sovereignty in West Africa’s time of AIDS. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010). Mol, A. The logic of care: health and the problem of patient choice. (London: Routledge, 2008). http://doc.utwente.nl/93532/1/9781134053179_front%20matter.pdf http://gafc.khu.ac.kr/eng_2013/scholarship/pdf/1_2/3.The%20Body%20and%20Culture.pdf Moon, S. et al. ‘The global health system: lessons for a stronger institutional framework’, PLoS Med 7(1) 2010.Petryna, A. When experiments travel: clinical trials and the global search for human subjects. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). http://www.powells.com/review/2010_05_30.html Szelak, N.A. et al. ‘The global health system: actors, norms and expectations in transition’, PLoS Med 7(1) 2010. http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000183 Zacher, M. and T. Keefe The politics of global health governance: united by contagion. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2009-01-01/politics-global-health-governance-united-contagion Test your knowledge and understanding

1. What are three different conceptions of health that have been predominant in industrialised nations?2. Why would illness be considered a type of deviance?3. Describe one major criticism of the biomedical model.4. How do demography and medicine relate?5. What is iatrogenesis?6. How does impairment differ from disability?7. What are some criticisms of the social model of disability, and are these justified?8. Critically discuss ‘medicalisation’.

17. Digital media

Digital revolution, ‘medium is the message’, new media, cybercrime.

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Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 18).

Further readingsBalnaves, M. et al. Media theories and approaches: a global perspective. (London: Palgrave, 2009).Caves, R. Creative industries: contracts between art and commerce. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2000). http://www.stuartglover.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2002-Creative-Industries-Contracts-between-Art-and-Commerce2.pdf http://www.illinoisjltp.com/sources/Skladany/98_Richard%20E.%20Caves,%20Contrac.pdf Chun, W. and T. Keenan New media, old media: a history and theory reader: interrogating cultural change. (London: Routledge, 2006). http://distributedcreativity.typepad.com/reading_group/2006/04/new_media_old_m.html Harvey, D. The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of social change. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989). https://libcom.org/files/David%20Harvey%20-%20The%20Condition%20of%20Postmodernity.pdf Gauntlett, D. Making is connecting: the social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0. (London: Polity Books, 2010). http://www.makingisconnecting.org/gauntlett2011-extract1.pdf Havens, T. Global television marketplace. (London: British Film Institute, 2007).Hayles, N. How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Hayles-Posthuman-excerpts.pdf Hesmondhalgh, D. The cultural industries. (London: Sage, 2007) second edition. https://www.academia.edu/1534986/Cultural_and_Creative_Industries Kitchin R. and M. Dodge Code/space: software and everyday life. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa/pdf/paper81.pdf Lukers, K. Salsa dancing into the social sciences: research in an age of info-glut. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/WQR/luker.pdf Marvin, C. When old technologies were new: thinking about electric communications in the late nineteenth century. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989).Miller, T. et al. Global Hollywood 2. (London: British Film Institute, 2005). http://tobymiller.org/images/Cultural%20Studies/Film/Film%20&%20globalization,%20with%20R.Maxwell.pdf

Pickering, M. Stereotyping: the politics of representation. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).Rantanen, T. The media and globalization. (London: Sage, 2004). http://www.nordicom.gu.se/sites/default/files/kapitel-pdf/269_rantanen.pdf Silverstone, R. Media and morality: the rise of the mediapolis. (Cambridge: PolityPress, 2007). http://nms.sagepub.com/content/10/3/537.refs Thompson, J. The media and modernity: a social theory of the media. (Cambridge: Polity, 1995). http://www.media-ucn.co.uk/Seminar%20Readings/Soc%203016/Media%20visibility.pdf Tomlinson, J. Globalization and culture. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999). http://www.pacificdiscovery.org/credit/SEAreadings/Globilization%20and%20Culture%20-%20Tomlinson,%20John.pdf Turner, F. ‘Where the counterculture met the new economy: the WELL and the origins of virtual community’, Technology and Culture 46 2005, pp.485−512. http://fredturner.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/turner-tc-counterculture-new-economy.pdf Turkle, S. Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other. (New York: Basic Books, 2011). https://oreducativa.wikispaces.com/file/view/Alone+Together+-+Why+We+Expect+More+from+Technology+and+Less+from+Each+Other+-+Sherry+Turkle.pdf Turow, J. Niche envy: marketing distraction in the digital age. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). http://www.deweyhagborg.com/learningBitByBit/Niche_Envy.pdf Vaidhyanathan, S. The googlization of everything (and why we should worry). (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). http://mmc.geofisica.unam.mx/acl/edp/Ejemplitos/TheGooglizationOfEverything/TheGooglizationOfEverything.pdf

Test your knowledge and understanding1. What does the term the ‘medium is the message’ refer to?2. How do the printed forms of media differ from visual forms according to some sociologists?3. What is significant about the digital revolution?4. What is the ‘intercloud’ and why do some social researchers describe it as revolutionary?5. Why is cybercrime so difficult to police?6. What are the ‘new media’?

18. New forms of sociation

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Civil inattention, extension, netiquette, compulsion to proximity, virtual communities, virtual reality , new media imperialism, ‘internet galaxy’, Essential readingsGiddens, A. and P.W. Sutton Sociology. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013 Chapter 8).

Further readingsAnderson, J. and T. Meyer Mediated communication. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage,1988).Burke, P. and A. Briggs A social history of the media: from Gutenberg to the internet. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001).Hartley, P. Interpersonal communication. (London: Routledge, 1993). http://home.lu.lv/~s10178/interpersonalcommunication.pdf Joinson, A. ‘Virtual worlds, real lives’ in Joinson, A. Understanding the psychology of internet behaviour. (Palgrave: New York, 2003). Joinson, A. et al. The Oxford handbook of internet psychology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).Lea, M.et al. ‘Knowing me, knowing you: anonymity effects on social identity processes within groups’, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 27(5) 2001, pp.526−37. https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cctp-752-fall2008/files/leaspearsdegroot_2001.pdf Solomon, D. and W. Theiss Interpersonal communication: putting theory into practice. (Hove, UK: Routledge, 2013). http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781136511653_sample_504183.pdf Walther, J. B. et al. ‘Interpersonal effects in computer-mediated interaction − a metaanalysis of social and antisocial communication’, Communication Research 21(4) 1994, pp.460–87. http://crx.sagepub.com/content/21/4/460.abstract Whitty, M. and A. Joinson Truth, lies and trust on the internet. (Hove, UK: Routledge, 2009).Yee, N. and J. Bailenson ‘The Proteus effect: the effect of transformed self- representation on behavior’, Human Communication Research 33(3) 2007, pp. 271−90. https://vhil.stanford.edu/pubs/2007/yee-proteus-effect.pdf

Test your knowledge and understanding1. What is netiquette?2. What did Postman mean when he argued we are ‘amusing ourselves to death?’3. What is the ‘internet galaxy’?4. What is the ‘compulsion to proximity’?

5. Is the internet an equal public forum? Why or why not?6. How do virtual communities connect with virtual reality?

Sample examination paper

Important note: This Sample examination paper reflects the examination and assessment arrangements for this course in the academic year 2014–2015. In future years you will be able to find the most recent examination papers on the VLE where all changes in the format of the examination are posted.

Time allowed: three hours.

Candidates should answer THREE of the following EIGHT questions in SECTION A (total 36 marks), and TWO of SEVEN in SECTION B (total 64 marks). Candidates are strongly advised to divide their time accordingly.

Section AShort questions: answer THREE of eight (total 36 marks).

1. What are the subjective and objective elements of class difference and which is more important in determining life chances?

2. How has the age of digital media affected traditional gender work roles in some Western countries?

3. Distinguish between a nation and a state.

4. How have organisations changed with global consumption? List at least three main ways and explain the processes involved.

5. What is deviance according to sociologists, and what are three methods for studying it?

6. Why do prisons and hospitals seem to resemble each other so much?

7. Explain why the sociology of disability is distinct from lay understandings of disability.

8. Explain what McLuhan meant by the phrase ‘the medium is the message’.

Section BLong questions: answer TWO of seven (total 64 marks).

1. Either

Is ethnicity a positive or negative force in making global society cohere?

Or

The only way to avert a social crisis with the ageing populations of industrialised nations is to increase the retirement age. Discuss critically.

2. Explain the different theories of genocide and illustrate with at least one historical example.

3. There is nothing that cannot be priced and put into a market. Evaluate in relation to two newly emergent global markets.

4. What is the relationship between family and socialisation?

5. Give an explanation of how cybercrime differs from other sorts of crime and illustrate this with one example.

6. Offer a critical account of the idea of disability, and explain how‘barriers to participation’ relate to social class.

SC1179 Contemporary sociology in a global age7. Develop the arguments for and against trying to control the global media.

Illustrate your answer with examples.

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Distribution of hours# Topic Total

hoursContact hours Self-studyLectures Seminars

The sociologic approach to human behaviour

1The sociological approach

28 8 8 12

Unit 12 Class 18 4 4 103 Race 16 4 4 8

Exam week4 Ethnicity 16 4 4 85 Gender 10 2 2 6

Unit 26 Family 16 4 4 87 Religion 8 2 2 48 The life cource 16 4 4 8

Exam weekUnit 3

9 Nations and nationalism 18 4 4 10

10 Conflict and warfare 8 2 2 4

Unit 4

11 Markets and money 22 6 6 10

12 Consumption and work 16 4 4 8

Unit 5

13 Crime in a global context 8 2 2 4

Exam week

14 Global health and medicine 18 4 4 10

Unit 615 Digital media 8 2 2 4

16 New forms of sociation 8 2 2 4

Total 234 58 58 118