module
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC2050: Knowing the Social: perception, memory and representation
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Sessions will consist of lectures with question/answer and discussion, hands-on workshops and tutorials linked to honing research techniques.
From year to year, the module’s precise content may vary. The syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics::
- Introduction: Knowing the Social (perception and reality; epistemology and ontology; meaning; framing; ethics)
- Unobtrusive measures (physical traces; oblique perspectives, the ‘light footprint’, archives and numbers)
- Sensory methods (multi-sensory and cross-sensory issues, non-verbal, the material world, embodiment)
- Textual methods (poetics and metaphor, style, content, narrative and discourse analysis, voice)
- Talk and spoken discourse (personae, turn-taking, cueing and discourse strands and registers, ensemble)
- Interviews and focus groups (performance, leading, prompting, the self-effacing interviewer, what we say vs what we do?, cueing, follow-up, the micro-macro link)
- Ethnography and Participant Observation (materiality, embodiment, practice, setting, scenes, organisations, ethnomethods, experience)
- Practical Workshops (on sensory, textual, interview and participant observation)
- Portfolio Clinic (on the written assignments)
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 16 | 8 Lectures 2 hours each |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 3 | 2 revision session 1.5 hours |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 3 | Tutorials 1 hour each |
| Guided Independent study | 64 | Reading set texts and wider reading to inform formative assessment items |
| Guided Independent study | 64 | Application of data collection /analysis for essay preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).