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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Social and Political Science : Sociology

Undergraduate Course: Comparative Sociologies (SCIL10074)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE FORMS PART OF THE NEW DEGREE PROGRAMME: MA GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY. THIS COURSE IS NORMALLY TAKEN IN FOURTH YEAR AND WILL NOT BE TAUGHT UNTIL 2016-2017.

This course is a required course for all students taking the MA in Global and International Sociology, and is normally taken in the fourth year of that degree programme. This course will not be delivered until 2016-17.

In the spirit of the journal International Sociology, this course aims to get students thinking comparatively and internationally. It explores statistical, historical and other comparative approaches to cross-national research, while allowing that the units of comparison need not be ¿national¿ societies. It also asks what a sociological approach might mean in diverse societal contexts, and whether the practice of sociology itself has regional and cultural inflections. Thus it engages postcolonial critiques of ¿western¿ sociological knowledge, and the possibility of ¿other¿ sociologies. Fleshing out theoretical issues, the second half of the course uses a comparative lens either (a) to explore some specific themes, e.g. happiness, gender equality, class conflict, changing family structures, etc., or (b) to explore the general sociology of two or more countries/societies.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:
* Identify an array of comparative cross-national strategies, and assess their various advantages and disadvantages.
* Articulate and analyse the problem of defining societies as units of analysis, including in relation to the nation-state.
* Assess cultural and national variations in how sociology is understood and done, including beyond the contexts of Europe, North America, and the Anglophone world.
* Apply insights taken form the course to more specific comparative research themes.
* Communicate effectively on this topic, both verbally and in writing.
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