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SOC 104 Introduction to Sociology
Department: BSc Elective
Module Description: This module introduces students to the fundamentals of sociology, its development over history, its principles and theories, its research methodologies, and its real-world implementation and practices. The module will engage with and tackle critical questions such as: what is society? What makes a society? How does it emerge? What is the role of individuals in it? How does society affect our own lives? And what roles does it play in the formation of polity, economy, industry, culture, and language? These questions will be answered through the scope of a variety of sociological traditions spanning from the classical age such as the works of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, to their contemporary heirs such as Bourdieu, Habermas, Giddens, and Latour. Topics covered include methodology of sociological research, culture, social interaction, social structure, social control, global inequality, stratification, education, government, and the economy.
Recommended readings
- Deeming, C. (ed.) (2021). The struggle for social sustainability : moral conflicts in global social policy. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Keirns, N.J., Strayer, E., Griffiths, H., Vyain, S., Bry, J.D., Cody-Rydzewski, S., Scaramuzzo, G., Jones, F. and Sadler, T. (2015). Introduction to Sociology. 2nd Ed. OpenStax.
- Lynch, O., Windle, J., & Ahmed, Y. (2021). Giving voice to diversity in criminological research. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- MacIver, R. M. and Spitz, D. (2018). Politics & society. London: Routledge.
- Martens, K., Niemann, D., & Kaasch, A. (2021). International organizations in global social governance. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Musgrave, P. W. (2017). The sociology of education. Melbourne: Routledge.
- Ozkaya, E. (2018). Learn social engineering: learn the art of human hacking with an internationally renowned expert. Birmingham: Packt Publishing Ltd.
- Sacchetti, S., Christoforou, A., & Mosca, M. (2017). Social regeneration and local development: cooperation, social economy and public participation. Routledge.
- Segre, S. (2014). Contemporary sociological thinkers and theories. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
- Treas, J., Scott, J. & Richards, M. (2017). The Wiley Blackwell companion to the sociology of families. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
- Walter, M. (2019). Social research methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Wixted, J. T., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2018). Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, language and thought (Vol. 3). 4th edn. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.