Overview
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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2018-2021
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-2021
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2022-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2022-ONGOING
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Stimulate your imagination and encourage you to engage creatively with the relationship between individuals, societies and the globe, using sociological thinking;
2.
Introduce you to some tools of sociological analysis;
3.
Introduce you to some of the thinkers who have influenced the discipline;
4.
Encourage you to recognise the relevance of sociology to everyday questions about contemporary issues in the social world.
You will also have gained practical skills to demonstrate:
5.
Enhance your research, reading and library skills as means to stimulate and support your sociological understanding;
6.
Enhance your communication skills, especially your oral and writing skills;
7.
A capacity to be a self-directed learner and thinker and to study and work independently;
8.
Tolerance and mutual respect in team discussions (online and in tutorials).
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:The unit asks you to consider the following questions:
• To what extent are we products of our social environments?
• How do gender, class, ethnicity, ideology etc., influence how we think and act?
• What is power, how is it used, by whom, and for what ends?
• What do we mean by saying that we live in a ‘celebrity society’?