Course module SOW-SCS101 Credits (ECTS) 3 Category - Language of instruction English Offered by Radboud University; Faculty of Social Sciences; Social and Cultural Sciences; Lecturer(s) Lecturer dr. L.W.J. Knippenberg Other course modules lecturer Lecturer prof. dr. M. Lubbers Other course modules lecturer Lecturer prof. dr. M.J. Spierenburg Other course modules lecturer Examiner prof. dr. M.J. Spierenburg Other course modules lecturer Contactperson for the course prof. dr. M.J. Spierenburg Other course modules lecturer Academic year 2017 Period PER1   (04/09/2017 to 12/11/2017) Starting block PER1 Course mode full-time Remarks - Registration using OSIRIS Yes Course open to students from other faculties No Pre-registration No Waiting list No Placement procedure -

	Aims Knowledge: Students obtain knowledge and insight in differences and similarities concerning the key societal questions posed in anthropology and development studies and sociology,. Skills: Students learn about multiple ways to approach key societal issues. Attitudes: Students learn to adopt a critical attitude towards a range of theoretical perspectives. Content Anthropology used to focus on pre-industrial societies whereas sociology used to focus on richer industrial societies. In the last decennia both disciplines focus on a broader range of societies, while development studies scholars primarily look at developing countries. The questions that are asked in these disciplines with regard to organisationally and technologically different societies run parallel to a large extent. They all focus on societies and not only on individuals and they all involve the same aspects of societies. These societal characteristics are the institutions, narratives and technologies used by citizens in a society to provide for themselves, the inequalities existing between them and the extent to which cohesion (solidarity) exists and conflicts occur between population groups. Students study subject matter from the three disciplines. Students evaluate the relation of current sociological problems to the classical main questions of inequality, rationalisation (i.e., technology) and cohesion (i.e., conflict). They learn that anthropology asks questions on what keeps societies together, what fractures occur, and what causes certain societies (‘tribal’ ones in particular) to have so little inequality. Furthermore, students are given an introduction to development studies, learning that this discipline critically studies “the deliberative acceleration of modernization, interpreted as the synchronized fourfold transition of economy, government, political system, and society” (WRR, 2010. Less Pretention, More Ambition: development policy in times of globalization. Amsterdam University Press p. 49). This perspective is expanded by adding an extra dimension, i.e. the ecological dimension, and the consequence adding this dimension has for the above-mentioned four transitions, through the idea of sustainable development. Levels Master Test information Papers
	Required materials Articles Ultee, W.C. (2015). Problem Selection in the Social Sciences: Methodology, Pp. 49-55. In NJ.D. Wright (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier. Book Coleman, J. S. (1990). Foundations of Social Theory. London: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1 and 2 Book Knippenberg, L. (1994). Development and Modernity. In: Frans Schuurman and Luuk Knippenberg. Blinded by Rainbows: anti-modernist and modernist deconstructions of development. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik Breitenbach (pp.90-106). Articles Knippenberg, L. (2004). Sustainable development. Scope. (pp. 1-14). Articles Dobson, Andrew (1996. Environment Sustainabilities: an analysis and a typology. Environmental Politics 5.3 (PP. 401-428). Articles Redclift, M. (2005). Sustainable development (1987–2005): an oxymoron comes of age. Sustainable development, 13(4), 212-227 Book Ferguson, J. (1997). Anthropology and its evil twin. “Development” in the constitution of a discipline. In: F. Cooper and R. Packard. International development and the social sciences: Essays on the history and politics of knowledge. pp.150-175 Articles McDermott Hughes, D. (2001). Cadastral Politics: The Making of Community-Based Resource Management in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Development and Change, 32(4), 741-768. Articles Li, T. M. (2014). What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(4), 589-602. Book Coleman, J.S. (1994). A rational choice perspective on economic sociology. In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology (1st edition), pp.166-180. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Instructional modes Lecture Attendance Mandatory Yes Seminars Attendance Mandatory Yes Tests Papers Test weight 1 Opportunities Block PER1, Block PER2