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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3110: Consumption and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Module Aims
This module will provide you with an understanding of a distinctive characteristic of developed capitalist societies, namely the central role that consumption plays in the reproduction of social class and the construction of individual identities. The module will enable you to analyse and interpret the ways that consumption itself and the discourse of consumerism pervade all aspects of contemporary social life.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate competence in working with diverse theoretical and empirical approaches to consumerism; 2. Demonstrate knowledge of some of the recent developments in the world consumption from a sociological and/or social anthropological perspective; 3. Demonstrate a detailed understanding of how subjectivities are constructed through and performed in consumption; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Demonstrate an analytical understanding of Sociology, taking into account different sociological perspectives, modes of social analysis and their concomitant theoretical and conceptual frameworks. 5. Conceptualise social, psychological and personal issues in a specifically sociological manner. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. Competently develop and deploy argument, grounded in theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence; 7. Demonstrate a capacity to focus on and comprehend complex texts, and identify problems of reliability in empirical evidence 8. Digest, select and organise material for written work and oral presentations, and write to set word length; 9. Participate confidently and competently in oral discussions; 10. Undertake independent research and capacity to work to deadlines; |