Module Descriptors
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL CARE
SOWK40113
Key Facts
Faculty of Health Sciences
Level 4
15 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Resources
Module Learning Strategies
Whole group sessions (12 x 2hrs = 24 hrs) will be used to explore key themes, concepts, theories. debates and boundaries to the discipline of sociology. These sessions will utilise lectures and workshops. There will be an emphasis on tutors providing key features of the topics and debates, but with the opportunities for students to raise issues and engage in exercises and discussions.
Small group sessions will be used to provide a more active learning environment for students. Student seminar presentations.
Directed and independent study (126hrs). Guided reading will underpin students' preparation for small group sessions and assessments. Students will be expected to carry out library research, internet research, work placement observation, make entries in their working journal and their professional development portfolio and use professional practice personnel appropriately as a resource for learning.
Practice based learning
This will involve the observation and interaction with professionals and service users, interviews,, reflective practice and applying learning to own practice.
Small group sessions will be used to provide a more active learning environment for students. Student seminar presentations.
Directed and independent study (126hrs). Guided reading will underpin students' preparation for small group sessions and assessments. Students will be expected to carry out library research, internet research, work placement observation, make entries in their working journal and their professional development portfolio and use professional practice personnel appropriately as a resource for learning.
Practice based learning
This will involve the observation and interaction with professionals and service users, interviews,, reflective practice and applying learning to own practice.
Module Indicative Content
This module provides an introduction to the social context of social care. It seeks to provide students with an understanding of:
Sociological perspectives and the social construction of social problems as they impact upon the lives of users of social care services.
Poverty, homelessness, crime and deviance, substance use, inequalities in health including mental health, educational disadvantage, urban and rural regeneration and difficulties faced by families and kinship networks including elders.
How structural inequality and social differentiation especially in relation to class, ethnicity, age, disability, gender and sexual orientation influence `life chances' and individual experience.
Sociological perspectives and the social construction of social problems as they impact upon the lives of users of social care services.
Poverty, homelessness, crime and deviance, substance use, inequalities in health including mental health, educational disadvantage, urban and rural regeneration and difficulties faced by families and kinship networks including elders.
How structural inequality and social differentiation especially in relation to class, ethnicity, age, disability, gender and sexual orientation influence `life chances' and individual experience.
Module Additional Assessment Details
Formative assessment:
Seminar presentation.
Summative assessment:
Essay applying sociological concepts, perspectives and terminology to an analysis of learners' autobiographies. To assess Learning outcomes 1 - 4
2000 words, weighting 100%
Seminar presentation.
Summative assessment:
Essay applying sociological concepts, perspectives and terminology to an analysis of learners' autobiographies. To assess Learning outcomes 1 - 4
2000 words, weighting 100%
Module Texts
You will need access to one of the following texts:
Bilton, A. (2004) Introductory Sociology (4th edition), Basingstoke, Palgrave
Fulcher, J. and Scott, J. (2007) Sociology (3rd edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press
Giddens, A. (2006) Sociology (5th edition), Cambridge, Polity
Bilton, A. (2004) Introductory Sociology (4th edition), Basingstoke, Palgrave
Fulcher, J. and Scott, J. (2007) Sociology (3rd edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press
Giddens, A. (2006) Sociology (5th edition), Cambridge, Polity
Module Special Admissions Requirements
This module is open only to students enrolled on the Foundation Degree in Social Care