Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Employ historical, comparative and intersectional approaches in the analysis of social phenomena.
- Synthesise and summarise information from a variety of sources.
- Evaluating competing models and explanations of the development of different types of modern society.
- Describing and assessing key concepts and theoretical perspectives used in the analysis of the development of modern societies and the nature of modernity.
- Identifying the distinctive contribution made by historical, comparative and intersectional perspective to sociological analysis.
- Reflecting critically on the long lasting impact of colonialism on processes of social change.
- Draw on different types of evidence in the development of an argument.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 128 |
| Teaching | 22 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Adams, Clemens and Orloff (eds) (2005). Remaking Modernity. Politics, History and Sociology. Duke.
Anca Parvulescu, Manuela Boatcă (2021). Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Steinmetz (ed) (2013). Sociology and Empire. The Imperial Entanglement of a Discipline. Duke.
Julian Go (2016). Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Julian Go, George Lawson (Eds.) (2017). Global Historical Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Roberts & Hite (eds) (2000). From Modernizaton to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change.. Blackwell.
Monika Krause (2021). Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lange, Matthew (2013). Comparative-Historical Methods. Sage.
Mahoney & Ruschemeyer (eds) (2003). Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge.
Bhambra, Gurminder (2014). Connected Sociologies. London: Bloomsbury.
Ali Meghji (2021). Decolonizing Sociology. Cambridge: Policy.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Analytical essay | 70% |
| Assessed written tasks | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Analytical essay | 70% |
| Assessed written tasks | 30% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Analytical essay | 70% |
| Assessed written tasks | 30% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External