Debates and Controversies in SOCA - ARTS3870
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Social Sciences
Course Outline: School of Social Sciences
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 120uoc overall, enrolment in a Sociology & Anthropology major, and in the final semester of a single Arts & Social Sciences program or the final semester of the Arts & Social Sciences component of a dual degree program
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology
This course gives you the opportunity to reflect upon the debates that have shaped sociological and anthropological inquiry. The course canvasses a range of perspectives and problems to show how the dynamism of the disciplines is created through a diversity of approaches. Topics to be addressed may include debates (structure and agency; identity and difference; realism and constructionism), conflicts (socio-biology; positivism and post-positivism), perspectives (materialism, genealogy, ethnography, ethnomethdology), and controversies (modernism vs. post-modernism). This course is the 'capstone' course of the Sociology & Anthropology major stream.