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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Sociology

166-256/356 Sociology of Postindustrial/Postmodern Societies

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Prerequisite/s:

Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week for one semester

Content:

This subject examines major sociological approaches to contemporary social and cultural transformation involved in the end of the synthesis represented by the national-industrial society. Key authors examined are Touraine, Giddens, Lash and Urry, Beck, Maffesoli, Ehrenberg, Melucci, Hage and Powers. The subject considers the shift from modes of socio-economic to socio-cultural analysis, while the strengths and weaknesses of these different sociological approaches are tested through a series of case studies examining the changing nature of social problems in areas of health, work, technology and culture, modes of social policy and transformations in contemporary democracy.

Assessment:

A case study report of 1000 words; a 1-hour class test and a 3000 word essay.

Prescribed Texts:

  • A. Touraine, Critique of Modernity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
  • J. Hage & C. Powers, Post-industrial Lives: Roles and relationships in 21st century, Newbury Park: Sage, 1992.
  • M. Waters, Globalisation, London: Routledge, 1994.
  • M. Waters et.al., Postmodernisation, Newbury Park: Sage, 1992.
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