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Social Theory Research This course explores recent attempts at theorising the social world, introducing students to contemporary social theory through an examination of topics central to social research and the nature of modern societies. A select range of social theorists will be chosen, based on departmental expertise and interest, to illuminate key aspects of the discipline as it wrestles with conceptual and diagnostic concerns. These include epistemological issues concerning whether a science of society is possible, how increasingly complex societies require new ways of theorizing communication and social systems and to what extent concepts like distinction, ambivalence, simulation and flow shed light on the nature of fast-paced, globalized, media-saturated societies like ours.
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Mode of delivery
The course will be based on a weekly, two-hour session led by a member of the course team. The precise organisation of the session will vary according to the topic but may include lectures, small group work, focused readings or discussions.
Teaching Staff Biography Nick Prior is Senior Lecturer in Sociology. His research interests are in the sociology of popular music, digital culture and technology, new media, cities, and social/cultural theory, particularly the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
Steve Kemp is lecturer in Sociology. His research interests are based in the philosophy of the social and natural sciences, particularly the question of how we might improve the validity of social scientific knowledge. He has interests in risk, the sociology of knowledge and social theory.
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Angus Bancroft is lecturer in Sociology. He has interests in the sociology of health and illness; smoking, drugs and alcohol use; the senses; criminology and socio-legal studies; gender, sex and sexuality; social theory; representation, form and function; embodiment; race and ethnicity; inequality, deprivation and exclusion; qualitative research methods; lifecourse methods.
Social Theory Topics
- Critical Theory
- Social Capital
- Gunnar Myrdal
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Radical social theory
- social theorist
- cultural theory
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