UNSW Handbook Course - Culture, Power, Modernity

Culture, Power, Modernity - SOCA2101


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Sociology and Anthropology
	Course Outline: http://sociology.arts.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 6 level 1 units of credit in Sociology and 36 units of credit overall
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Investigates the interrelationships between culture, economy and power within modernity. Addresses some emergent 19th to 21st century cultural features of 'the modern': popular culture, consumption (fashion, shopping, leisure) visual culture (photography, mass mediated images, science imaging) and the rise of aesthetic modernism and avant-gardism. It will also contextualise 'the modern' within the longer legacy of the Enlightenment 'project of modernity' and thus related issues of democratisation, science and rationality, money and the commodity form, public sphere, politico-cultural hegemony and non-party social movements. Theorists include: Simmel, Veblen, Marx, Gramsci, Weber, Benjamin, Freud, Williams.

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