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Social Science History Calendar Academic Year 2011/2012 |
| Integrated web support will help you understand the content of the courses. For history, there are web lecture notes (which you can also go to by clicking the level one history lecture title each week). Social Science History (for budding theorists) (available on the web) covers many issues discussed in the level one history course, and useful to other courses. People and ideas systems will introduce you to many theorists. The social science dictionary discusses many of the concepts and the science and crime and mental health timelines will put the theories into historical order. The biographical literature reviews are based on level three history student work and will often be useful for other students. Students developing their own thessi (dissertation) may want to use the subject index for ideas. For "Thinking Sociologically" the extended lectures on Bauman and May and Durkheim are particularly relevant, |
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Office hours: Fridays 2pm-4pm
Groups Level One:
Thinking Sociologically Lectures
Contemporary Social Structures lectures
History of Social Ideas (SOC1315):
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Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime (SOC3650)
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
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Learning Week one:
Monday 8.10.2012 to Friday 12.10.2012 |
Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Introduction to Social Science History Level one: Prehistoric and Greek images of men and women - Body and mind (the birth of reason) perceived in images.
Looking at pictures of artifacts (objects made by human beings) from the ground that archaeologists interpret as images of human forms and asking you to speculate on what they represent. This theme seeks to show you the need to use imagination in interpreting data and to reflect on the images of gender, family, the body and the mind that emerge in the interpretation of these particular images.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture one: Module Introduction: Malcolm Richardson
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Introduction to Module and Module Themes by Emma Dowling
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
We will discuss
essay title construction for the first term
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Learning Week two:
Monday 15.10.2012 to Friday 19.10.2012 |
Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Nature and reason in Plato and Aristotle. How nature and reason relate to social structure and the self. Showing how the hierarchical organisation (structure) of society relates to the hierarchical organisation of personality.
Discuss the diagram of the just society and the just soul. What is hierarchy and where do we find it? What is reason and where do we find that? Should reason govern in the common interest?
Discussion: Do men and women think differently?
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture two:
Oneself with Others by Andrew
Roberts. Focus on
George Herbert Mead
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Defining 'contemporary social structures' by Emma Dowling
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Students present initial ideas about
essay title construction for the first term. We then look at the
history charts.
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Learning Week three:
Monday 22.10.2012 to Friday 26.10.2012 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Saint Simon's outline of history - Ancient world - Medieval world - Modern world. Showing how the structure of society, and its culture, can be analysed as changing over time. Relating this to Auguste Comte's statics and dynamics. We will focus on Medieval worlds: The organisation of all knowledge from heaven downwards (Theology). Feudal hierarchy. Church and state. Theological (Jewish, Christian and Islamic) views of the first humans (Adam and Eve) and their state of nakedness. See the Cartoon of Adam and Eve
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture three:
Viewing and Sustaining Our Lives by Sue Mew
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Concepts, Opinions, Facts and Theories by Emma Dowling
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Looking at the history charts again.
Wednesday 31.10.2012 DEADLINE for fixing titles for History courses.
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Learning Week four:
Monday 29.10.2012 to Friday 2.11.2012 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
State of Nature Theory Changing the Adam and Eve story into a theory that starts with the natural world. Introducing Hobbes and Locke and looking particularly at Hobbes "trains of thought" and at the diagrammatic picture from the front of Leviathan showing the sovereign and reliance on the power of arms and the power of ideas.
Discussion: What would we be like if we were stripped of all our social characteristics?
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture four:
The Bonds that Unite by Malcolm Richardson
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture:
Socialisation, Identity, and Interaction by Anthony Armatrudo
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Utilitarian theory in sociology and criminology
Beccaria and Bentham: Classical theorists
Contrast with Lombroso and positivist theories
What is madness?
Watson and Skinner) - behaviourism - George Herbert Mead - social behaviourism
Lombroso - biological positivism
Freud - psychological poitivism
Durkheim - sociological positivism
Continue the discussion in the next two weeks with respect to the individual and soociety
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Learning Week five:
Monday 5.11.2012 to Friday 9.11.2012 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
John Locke versus Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes The social contract (state of nature as in Locke) versus the family model of society (Filmer). Stressing Filmer's secular (natural) rather than his theological arguments. State of nature (individuals make society) versus transcendant (society is above the individual) themes in modern social theory. Locke's idea of reason as inter-personal contrasted with Hobbes' idea that we are self centred. Relate to behaviourism and social-behaviourism (Mead and symbolic interactionism)
Key theme 2012: Family models of society and how they relate to Marx and Engels, Taylor and Mill, Durkheim and Freud.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture five:
Decisions and Actions by Malcolm Richardson.
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Crime and Deviance by Nicola Montagna
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
The individual and society:
Plato's chart
Harriet Taylor - John Stuart Mill - Friederich Engels and Saint Simon's charts.
Sigmund Freud and the collective unconscious
Emile Durkheim and suicide
George Herbert Mead mind and body
Erving Goffman: moral careers through social institutions.
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Learning Week six:
Monday 12.11.2012 to Friday 16.11.2012
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
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What is science?
How do we decide between theories? John Locke's empiricism. Descartes and
rationalism. Hume's doubts. Wollstonecraft and the evolution of knowledge
through trial and error. The lecture includes fruit which students attempt
to analyse in the mode of Hume.
Read Essay Three from Social Science History (There are no lecture notes) This lecture will be illustrated by apples and a pink elephant. You may want to bring your own apple. Cuddly toys will also be welcome! |
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Key theme 2012: How this relates to Sigmund Freud
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture six:
Making it Happen, Gifts, Exchange and Intimacy in Relationships
by Emma Dowling.
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Religion, Belief and Meaning by Nicola Montagna
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Individual and society: Discussion continued from last week
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Learning Week seven:
Monday 19.11.2012 to Friday 23.11.2012 Criminology Student Board of Studies for Term 1: Tuesday 20.11.2012 10am- 12pm Sociology Student Board of Studies for Term 1: Wednesday 21.11.2012 10am-12pm
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Rousseau and the French Revolution Contrasting Rousseau with Hobbes on the ability of physical force to establish society. Rousseau's idea of the general will and how it generates reason and humanity from the state of nature. How this relates to gender and how it relates to slavery. How it relates to the reform of society and the French Revolution.
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Hooded man with gun: "Your money or your life". Is it a valid bargain? - See Rousseau against Hobbes on slavery |
Rousseau is a precursor of Durkheimian theory.
Key theme 2012: How this relates to Marx, Engels and Durkheim with respect to crime
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture seven:
Care of Our Selves: The Body, Health and Sexuality.
by Emma Dowling
Level One:
Lecture: Writing and structuring your formative essay by Emma Dowling
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Prisons and mental hospitals - identity and institutions.
Erving Goffman
The case of Mary Lamb
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Learning Week eight:
Monday 26.11.2012 to Friday 30.11.2012 |
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Learning Week nine:
Monday 3.12.2012 to Friday 7.12.2012 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Adam Smith and the wealth of society - Outlining the analysis of society by the balance of different sentiments. Different sentiments more important in different spheres of society. Looking particularly at self-interest and how, in the economic sphere, it contributes to the general good more than altruism. The (economic) division of labour and its power. Contrast with the division of labour in Durkheim's work.
Key theme 2012: The division of labour in Adam Smith, Marx and Engels and Durkheim
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture eight:
Time, Space and (Dis)Order by Emma Dowling
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Race and Ethnicity by Nicola Montagna
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Talking about concepts
Self and body
Sex
Other concepts to be filled in
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Learning Week ten:
Monday 10.12.2012 to Friday 14.12.2012 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Utilitarianism - Explaining the principle that the search for happiness and avoidance of pain explains all human actions and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the recipe for a good society. Bentham's theory of fictions: ideologies of the ruling classes are designed to hide from the ruled the true motives of the rulers. Compare Bentham's associationism with the behaviourism of the psychologist and social theorist Skinner.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture nine:
Drawing Boundaries: Culture, Nature, State and Territory
by Emma Dowling
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture:
Sex, Gender, Sexuality by Emma Dowling
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
- Review of
progress in the countdown to finishing.
Referencing -
Self-assessment - Life and works.
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Learning Week eleven:
Monday 17.12.2012 to Friday 21.12.2012 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
To be decided
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
No lecture
Thinking Sociologically
Guided tutorial
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Communication and the Media by Anthony Armatrudo
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
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Christmas Vacation 22.12.2012 to 1.1.2013 University closed for Christmas vacation
Wednesday 2.1.2013 University reopens after Christmas vacation.
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Learning Week twelve:
Monday 14.1.2013 to Friday 18.1.2013 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
No lecture - Student Guided Study Week 1
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
No lecture
Thinking Sociologically
Guided tutorial
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
No lecture - Student Guided Study Week 1
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
No lecture - Student Guided Study Week 1
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Learning Week thirteen:
Monday 21.1.2013 to Friday 25.1.2013 |
Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Utilitarianism, socialism and feminism Robert Owen's concept of self-interest as co-operation. His model factory, village community and life-long education system. The ideal cooperative community and the liberation of women from male violence. Thompson and Wheeler and the systematic exposition of utilitarian feminism. Different visions of social cages. Where does the total institution or panopticon end?
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture one:
The Sociology of Karl Marx by Malcolm Richardson
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture:
Education by Andrew Roberts
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
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Learning Week fourteen:
Monday 29.1.2013 to Friday 1.2.2013 |
Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Men, women and children in the coal mines Looking first at the issues around women and children working in the coal mines, and why it was banned. Then at the theories that explained the social upheavals of the 1840s. Starting with Lord Ashley's theory of the disintegration of society and the family by the market. Mill and Taylor's depiction of this (Lord Ashley's theory) as dependency theory, and their own theory of the developing self-determination of the labouring classes and women.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture two: Marx: Capitalism, Social Class and Class Conflict
by Malcolm Richardson
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture:
Inequality, Poverty, Wealth by Andrew Roberts
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Presentations start this week.
Friday 1.2.2013 DEADLINE for concluding History reviews.
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Learning Week fifteen:
Monday 4.2.2013 to Friday 8.2.2013 |
Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
The family as a model for society. Dependency and self-determination theories as described by Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill in 1848. The development of self-determination as a key to human history (following Wollstonecraft), as developed by John Stuart Mill in The Subjection of Women (1869). The family as a school to train its members for participation as free men and women in a free society.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture three: Marx: Capitalist Production and Alienated Labour
by Malcolm Richardson
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture:
Work, Employment and Leisure by Andrew Roberts
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Presentation:
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Learning Week sixteen:
Monday 11.2.2013 to Friday 15.2.2013 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Changing structures in 1840s Britain. Economics and class conflict The theory of the cash-nexus from Thomas Carlyle as interpreted by Friedrich Engels. Then, based on Engels The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845, the breakdown of the pre-industrial society and the commercialisation of human relations. How this related to class, politics, the family, sex and crime. See Engels on Crime. Then, based on The Communist Manifesto, 1848, the theory of history as class conflict, building on Saint Simon.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture five:
Durkheim on the Division of Labour, Social Solidarity and Social
Conflict
by Andrew Roberts
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture:
Stratification, Class, Status by Andrew Roberts
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
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Learning Week seventeen:
Monday 18.2.2013 to Friday 22.2.2013 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Production, Reproduction, Politics. Discussing Shulamith Firestone's chart of Engels' (1884) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Explaining the difference between production, reproduction and politics and the speculations about their development and mutual inter-action. Locating course themes on the chart, including pre-history, Freud's speculation about the tribal horde, the birth of reason, Plato and Aristotle, the city state, the medieval world and feudalism, the modern state and modern society, and future society.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture four:
The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
by Andrew Roberts
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Power, Division, Protest by Nicola Montagna
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Presentation:
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Learning Week eighteen:
Monday 25.2.2013 to Friday 1.3.2013 Sociology Board of Studies Term 2: |
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Learning Week nineteen:
Monday 4.3.2013 to Friday 8.3.2013 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Max Weber: Social theory of action and the modern state Relating Weber to Hobbes. Showing how Weber's methodology is based on individuals and the meanings they give to actions as the real basis of society. The importance of politics (the sovereign in Hobbes) in imposing regularity on the diversity of individual desires through force (the power of the gun) and legitimacy (the power of ideas - KultureKampf - cultural war). Charisma and history.
Emile Durkheim: Society is real and history needs criminals Relating Durkheim to Rousseau's concept of the general will. Showing how Durkheim's work all centre's round the effort to demonstrate that society is real and not an artificial construction of individuals. The social division of labour contrasted with Adam Smith's concept. The inter-dependence of individual action and social tradition, as illustrated by aborigine dances changing. Contrasting Durkheim's theory of society as real with Bentham's utilitarianism and showing how this leads to contrasting theories of the nature of crime and punishment. Deviancy and conformity and history.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture six:
Durkheim: Suicide and Social Solidarity by Andrew Roberts
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Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Cities and Communities by Anthony Armatrudo
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Presentation:
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Learning Week twenty
Monday 11.3.2013 to Friday 15.3.2013
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Sigmund Freud: Unconscious meanings in the development of individuals and society The interpretation of the individual mind (dreams, free association and errors) and the collective mind (myths, folklore, religion) as symbols of an underlying reality. Reason and unreason as elements in social analysis. Contrast with the dominance of reason in the structural hierarchy of Plato.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture seven:
The Sociology of Max Weber by Sue Mew
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Globalisation by Anthony Armatrudo
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Presentation:
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Learning Week twentyone
Monday 18.3.2013 to Friday 22.3.2013
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
Robert Merton and Talcott Parsons: Structural functionalism illustrated by theories of criminal choice and sick roles. Discussing meanings of structure and function in work of Parsons and Merton. Relating to the Weberian theory of action and what Parson's calls the "Hobbesian problem of order". How the freedom of the individual to choose actions is preserved within Merton's theory of crime. How role-playing is part of sickness in Parson's theory.
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture eight:
Weber on Religion, Social Action and Rational Capitalism by Sue Mew
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
Lecture: Revision Lecture by Emma Dowling
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
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Learning Week twentytwo
Monday 25.3.2013 to Friday 29.3.2013 |
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Level One:
History of Social
Ideas
To be decided
Level One:
Thinking Sociologically
Lecture nine:
Weber on Capitalism, Bureaucracy, and Democracy by Sue Mew
Level One:
Contemporary Social Structures
No lecture - Student Guided Study Week 2
Level Three:
History of Social Science, Madness and Crime
Presentation:
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Easter Vacation Monday 1.4.2013 to Friday 12.4.2013
University closed Friday 6.4.2012? to Tuesday 10.4.2012? inclusive
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Learning Week twentythree
Monday 15.4.2013 to Friday 19.4.2013 |
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Criminology and Sociology Modules Tutorial Week
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Learning Week twentyfour
Monday 22.4.2013 to Friday 26.4.2013 |
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Criminology and Sociology Modules Tutorial Week
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