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Technologies, Culture, Society - ARTS2877
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Course Outline: School of Social Sciences
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
 
 
Equivalent: SOCA2104
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
 
  

Description

Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Women's and Gender Studies

Covers sociological and anthropological approaches to the changing relationship between technology, culture, economy and society. Topics may include: ‘social shaping’ and other approaches to technologies and technological innovation – whether early devices, means of communication or biotechnology; reproductive technologies; the shifting role of ‘the economy’ – such as households and social networks of production and consumption; the shifting boundaries between work and leisure; shifting understandings of ‘society’ that have been put forward to account for these changes – industrial society, post-industrial society, consumer society/culture, information society…; the rise of ‘cultural economy’ and‘cultural industries’ as themes within recent debates. [OMIT: Theorists covered may include Polanyi, Veblen, Bell, Castells.]

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