This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is delivered through a combination of lectures, online materials and classes totalling a minimum of 40 hours across MT and LT. Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in MT Week 6 and LT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
A class presentation and a termly paper in both MT and LT.
R Dalton, Citizen Politics, 5th edn; G Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism; E. Gellner, Nations and Nationalism; A Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory;? R Inglehart, Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society; J Manza & C Brooks, Social Cleavages and Political Change; F. Piven and R. Cloward, Poor People?s Movements; D. Rueschemeyer et al, Capitalist Development and Democracy;?T Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions;?S Tarrow, Power in Movement.
Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (30%, 2500 words) in the ST. An electronic copy of the assessed essay, to be uploaded to Moodle, no later than 4.00pm on the first Thursday of Summer Term.? Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.