Course content
1.Inclusion and exclusion – how social systems work to include some individuals and exclude others.
2.Security – how our sense of safety and security is created out of material practices and through the types of ‘stories’ told in media and other cultural institutions.
3.Attachment – how attachments between people and things are constantly made and remade through social processes.
4.Conduct – the shaping of behavior through habit, knowledge and legislation.
1.Inclusion and exclusion – how social systems work to include some individuals and exclude others.
2.Security – how our sense of safety and security is created out of material practices and through the types of ‘stories’ told in media and other cultural institutions.
3.Attachment – how attachments between people and things are constantly made and remade through social processes.
4.Conduct – the shaping of behavior through habit, knowledge and legislation.
Course outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
1.Critically evaluate key sociological contributions to the study of social worlds, in particular relation to security.
2.Critically evaluate key sociological contributions to the study of social worlds, in particular relation to attachment.
3.Critically evaluate key sociological contributions to the study of social worlds, in particular relation to conduct.
4.Understand and explain how matter, mediation and the individual manifest as sociological concerns in accounts of the making of social worlds.
5. Compare and evaluate how matter, mediation, and the individual manifest as sociological concerns in accounts of making of social worlds.
6.Compare and evaluate the different sociological approaches to the issues of security, attachment and conduct.
7.Explain the utility of social science approaches in a chosen vocational environment
