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 166-080 Society and Self Identity

Note

Formerly available as 166-130. Students who have completed 166-130 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Kevin McDonald

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject aims to introduce key concepts and approaches in sociology to students who have not studied it previously. It introduces ways of gathering evidence, and ways of linking together evidence and ideas, and it introduces strategies to test and explore these links through fieldwork. The subject explores the relationship between changing experiences of selfhood and new patterns of social life, questions of identity and inequality, the family, contemporary social division, changing meanings of gender and sexuality, embodied subjectivity, addiction, subcultures and globalised society.

Assessment

A fieldwork report of 1000 words, an essay of 2000 words and a 1-hour class test totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • K McDonald, Struggles for Subjectivity: Identity, Action and Youth Experience. CUP 1999.


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