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The course will engage with a range of contemporary social theories dealing with the complexity of everyday life. Topics covered include: networks, flows and globalisation; self-identity, sexuality and gender; governance, bio-politics and digital environments. The course will track the different ways in which theorists in these topic areas focus their concerns on, and provide descriptions of, the ceaseless experimentation characteristic of contemporary forms of communication, time-spaces, culture, and everyday life.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:Negotiate between the different arguments proposed by social theorists.Engage in reflexive thinking about theorizing and the discipline of sociology.Understand the relevance of contemporary social theory for substantive problems of social and political analysis.
15pts of 100 level SOCI with B+ grade or better; or 30pts of 100 level SOCI; alternatively students without 100 level SOCI but with a B average or better in 60 pts in related subjects may be admitted to one 200 level SOCI course.
SOCI301
Camilla Obel
Ruth McManus
Andrew Butler
Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury, Shaun LeBoutillier; Introducing Social Theory ; 2nd Edition; Polity Press, 2011 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introducing-Social-Theory-Pip-Jones/dp/0745635237/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327600648&sr=1-1).
Learn Course Reader Assignment Sheet Cover Plagiarism Statement Referencing for Sociology Using EndNote for referencing Writing guides for Sociology
Domestic fee $619.00
International fee $2,688.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .