Postgraduate Course: Scotland: Social Structure and Social Change (PGSP11257)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Scotland has been an integral part of the United Kingdom, a highly centralised and unitary state, for nearly 300 years. Yet Scotland has survived the Union of 1707, and indeed flourished, as a distinctive nation with a distinctive civil society. Scotland provides an important test case for the proposition that the quest for self-determination occurs in the context of major shifts in social and political arrangements at the global level. This course reviews the sociological concepts available to understand Scotland, examining issues such as social class and social mobility, economic development, heritage, the media, religion, identity and culture. The course also aims to move beyond any narrow conception of sociology to incorporate insights from other perspectives. This multidisciplinary approach will develop an understanding of Scotland's place in the contemporary world which takes into account appropriate historical, political and theoretical perspectives. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Students will be able to critically review and assess the sociological concepts available to understand contemporary Scotland
- Students will be able to critically evaluate issues relating to Scottish identity, in particular gender, class, religion, ethnicity, language, culture and integration/exclusion
- tudents will have developed a critical appreciation of gender inequality, social mobility and class reproduction in Scotland, with specific reference to social and educational ideologies
- Students will have developed a critical ppreciation of the broad countours of modern Scottih politics, especially those of the post 1979 period.
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Michael Rosie
Tel: (0131 6)51 1651
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Course secretary | Miss Kate Ferguson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5122
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