SOCI3047 Shaping the Future

Dr Zoei Sutton

2016

4.5

1 x 3-hour seminar weekly

4.5 Units of Level 1 topics

Associated major: Sociology

Bachelor of Social Planning; Bachelor of Social Work and Social Planning; Bachelor of Media (Public Affairs); Bachelor of Media (Creative Arts)

This course examines the ways that sociology can contribute to social change. Considering the role of 'public sociology' the course will consider what activism is, how we might get involved in it, how we might use it to promote social change and awareness. Using contemporary case studies the topic considers what might a just society look like and does so by centralising notions of social inequality, power and activism

This topic will:

Introduce sociological perspectives on social inequality, power and activism

Examine the social processes and structures through which ideas and images of equality and social change are produced, reproduced and transformed

Provide opportunities for the furtherdevelopment of skills, such as:

Critical analysis
Constructing a logical argument
Referencing
Self-directed and independent learning
Group-work
Constructive and informed participation in discus

On successful completion of this topic students will:

develop a social science understanding of key issues pertaining to modern assumptions regarding social change and activism
be able to apply and critique various sociological approaches to the construction of power and inequality
become familiar with the range of discourses surrounding activism, social change and power, and be able to evaluate their purposes
learn how to work independently and in teams

Key dates and timetable

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