Main Field of Study and progress level:
Sociology: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Sociology
Contents
The aim of the course is to contribute to an understanding of social changes in the contemporary world. On a theoretical level changes are associated with concepts like reflexive modernity and globalization. At the empirical level changes can be found in the radically altered living conditions for various categories, strongly affecting social relations in societies. This course will combine a theoretical understanding of social change processes with empirical examples from various parts of the world, drawn from different research methods, providing a wide picture of actual changing living conditions and social relations.
Expected learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course, the student will have
- knowledge about, and ability to describe social changes on a global level in the fields of work, nationhood and social inequalities
- ability to reflect on the effect of global changes on social psychological core issues such as the making of culture, coping with differences and intergroup relations
- ability to apply the required knowledge when analysing relevant themes both in written form and in oral presentations.
Required Knowledge
Univ: General qualifications för university studies.
Form of instruction
The teaching forms of the course are lectures and seminars. All seminars are compulsory.
Examination modes
For exam the students are supposed to write a paper discussing some of the relevant topics for the course.
Examination regarding this curriculum cannot take place later than within two years after the beginning of the course. The judgement is to be individual for all courses given by the Department of Sociology.
The Swedish academic grading system includes three pass grades: Fail, Pass and Pass with distinction. An expanded scale is used for visiting students. The expanded scale is intended to be compatible with the scale used in the European Credit Transfer System (A-F).
Academic credit transfer
Decisions relating to academic credit transfers are made on a case-by-case basis. For further information about this contact the study advisor. See also Umeå Universitys set of rules and academic transfer regulations.
www.umu.se/studentcentrum/regler_riktlinjer/regelsamlingen/examensfrågor.html
Literature
Valid from:
2009 week 4
Global sociology Cohen Robin, Kennedy Paul 2. ed. : Basingstoke : Macmillan : cop. 2007 : 584 s. : ISBN: 978-1-4039-4844-1 Search the University Library catalogue
Burawoy Michael Global ethnography : forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world Berkeley : Univ. of California Press : 2000 : xv, 392 s. : ISBN: 0-520-22215-6 (inb.) Search the University Library catalogue
Understanding social psychology across cultures : living and working in a changing world Smith Peter Bevington, Bond Michael Harris, Kagtçbas Çigdem 3. rev. ed. : London : SAGE : 2006 : vii, 323 s. : ISBN: 1-4129-0365-3 (inb.) Search the University Library catalogue
