Module Descriptors
CULTURE AND IDENTITY
SOCY70188
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 7
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Michael Ball
Email: M.S.Ball@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 12
Independent Study Hours: 138
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 70%
- COURSEWORK - REVIEW weighted at 30%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
Tutor introductions to key issues designed for specific seminar sessions
Tutor-led seminar discussion and debates
Short student seminar presentations and discussions
Private reading and analysis of key texts as preparation for seminars
Writing concluding essay and book review
Tutor-led seminar discussion and debates
Short student seminar presentations and discussions
Private reading and analysis of key texts as preparation for seminars
Writing concluding essay and book review
Module Indicative Content
This module examines the social and cultural processes generating the production of diverse contemporary identities and the decentring of traditional and modern identities. The module aims to critically explore the cultural forms and practices produced and consumed in the expression of these unsettling identities, and the emergent meanings which are contested and transmitted. Seminars will be organised around themes such as postcoloniality, sexual identities, new social movements, the spatial location of identity, corporate identities, identity and material culture, memory, class, consumption, gender and the body, techno-identities, and national and cosmopolitan identities.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Demonstration of informed understanding of key issues covered; appropriate application of relevant theory; evidence of familiarity with important texts; skill in producing critical, coherent and structured arguments.
A Coursework Essay will assess [Learning Outcomes 1 and 3]
A Coursework Review will assess [Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3]
A Coursework Essay will assess [Learning Outcomes 1 and 3]
A Coursework Review will assess [Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3]
Module Texts
Rosamund Billington et al (1998) Exploring Self and Society (Macmillan)
Ian Craib (1998) Experiencing Identity (Sage)
Tim Edensor (2002) National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Berg)
Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay (eds.) (1996) Question of Cultural Identity (Sage)
Paul du Gay et al (2000) Identity: A Reader (Sage)
Deborah Lupton (1998) The Emotional Self (Sage)
Richard Jenkins (1996) Social Identity (Routledge)
Anthony Giddens (1990) Modernity and Self-identity (Polity)
John Rajchman (ed) (1995) The Identity in Question (Routledge)
Madan Sarup (1996) Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World (Edinburgh)
Kathryn Woodward (1997) Identity and Difference (Sage)P.du Gay and S. Hall (1996) Cultural Identity (Sage)
Ian Craib (1998) Experiencing Identity (Sage)
Tim Edensor (2002) National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Berg)
Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay (eds.) (1996) Question of Cultural Identity (Sage)
Paul du Gay et al (2000) Identity: A Reader (Sage)
Deborah Lupton (1998) The Emotional Self (Sage)
Richard Jenkins (1996) Social Identity (Routledge)
Anthony Giddens (1990) Modernity and Self-identity (Polity)
John Rajchman (ed) (1995) The Identity in Question (Routledge)
Madan Sarup (1996) Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World (Edinburgh)
Kathryn Woodward (1997) Identity and Difference (Sage)P.du Gay and S. Hall (1996) Cultural Identity (Sage)
Module Resources
Seminar room equipped with VHS and DVD playback
Appropriate library book and journal resources
Appropriate library book and journal resources