SOW-SCS101
Comparative societal questions
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Course moduleSOW-SCS101
Credits (ECTS)3
CategoryMA (Master)
Language of instructionEnglish
Offered byRadboud University; Faculty of Social Sciences; Social and Cultural Sciences;
Lecturer(s)
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prof. dr. M.C.L. van den Brink
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prof. dr. C.H.B.M. Spierings
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dr. A.A.C. Tonnaer
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Examiner
dr. A.A.C. Tonnaer
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Coordinator
dr. A.A.C. Tonnaer
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Academic year2020
Period
PER1  (01/09/2020 to 01/11/2020)
Starting block
PER1
Course mode
full-time
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Please note: if you do not yet have a master's registration, you are not yet registered for the tests for this course.
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Registration using OSIRISYes
Course open to students from other facultiesNo
Pre-registrationNo
Waiting listNo
Placement procedure-
Aims
Objectives:
Knowledge: Students refresh and obtain knowledge of and insight in differences and similarities concerning the key societal questions posed in anthropology and development studies, sociology, and gender and diversity studies.
Skills: Students learn about raising analytical questions to approach key societal issues.
Attitudes: Students learn to adopt a critical attitude towards the development of research questions.
 
Content
Content
In this course students will focus on the differences and similarities concerning key societal questions that are posed in the disciplines of Anthropology and Development Studies, Sociology and Gender and Diversity. Through three sets of two topical seminars in these social science disciplines, students will learn that the questions that are asked with regard to organisationally and technologically different societies (in both the Global North and South) run parallel to a large extent. All three disciplines study how societal characteristics shape and influence individual and societal outcomes. In contrast to, for example psychology, they do not only focus on individuals but thus also explicitly incorporate societal characteristics in their subject matter, either as a cause (explanans) or consequence (explanandum). These societal characteristics encompass  institutions, narratives and technologies used by citizens in a society to provide for themselves, the level of inequality within society, and the extent to which cohesion (solidarity) exits and conflicts occur between population groups.
Through the lens of a particular subject matter (such as modernization, sustainable development or intersectionality), different concepts and approaches are debates and criticized. For instance, (cultural) diversity is problematized in each of the disciplines, albeit in different ways, leading to different new research questions. As a result, sometimes heated debates take place within and between the disciplines. In this course you will learn the languages and focus of the different disciplines, understand how they do and do not differ, and obtain the first building blocks to shape your own academic position.

 

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Syllabus
Prior to the course a list of assigned literature will be announced.

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Lecture
Attendance MandatoryYes

Remark
The precise outlook of the course meetings will be announced a week prior the start of the course, in the course guide.

Seminars
Attendance MandatoryYes

Remark
The precise outlook of the course meetings will be announced a week prior the start of the course, in the course guide.

Tests
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Test typePaper
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