ASOK15102U Advanced Culture, Lifestyle and Everyday Life
MA Sociology 2015 - Compulsory course package subject.
Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2015 to
take this exam.
BA-Undergraduates from foreign countries (exchange students) can
sign up for this course
This is the compulsory course for the MA specialization in Culture, Lifestyle and Everyday Life. In this course we critically review a range key theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, each contributing to a sociological understanding of sociocultural problems within contemporary urbanized society. The course relates to but also seeks to move beyond existing understandings of what sociocultural phenomena are and how they can be empirically studied within a cultural sociology framework.
First, we introduce the students to a problem based approach to cultural sociology: While the cultural aspects of everyday life and lifestyles have a “bright side” of enjoyable sociality, the course will focus on “dark side” of sociocultural life, especially in the context of the contemporary city. Urban problems arises, for example, in relation to contested uses of space, subcultural and delinquent lifestyles, street violence and cultures, and various criminal activities. This is moreover the case when lifestyles are related to transgressive risk behaviors, when cultures neutralize their deviance and thus provokes mainstream societies norms, or when one finds pleasures in others pains and loss. In the course we will examine these and related dark side of everyday urban life.
Second, in the course we will examine the interface and interplay between the cultural and pre-cultural aspects of everyday life, reflecting the view that we are better analytically equipped to conceptualize cultural phenomena when these are compared to their pre-cultural flip side: Emotions, for example, are structured by cultural norms and rules but emotions also unfold as raw pre-cultural affects in a biological body. In a similar manner, the course will examine and discuss how the physical forms of urban space, the psychosomatic stimulants of drugs, and the biological underpinnings of face-to-face interaction have to considered as pre-cultural processes that shape the cultural expression of urban life, drug use and socio-moral order.
Knowledge:
The course will provide the students with knowledge of
- the core sociological research literature within the thematic field of Culture, Lifestyle and Everyday Life
- familiarity with the recent litterature within urban problems and uses of space, delinquent lifestyles related to transgressive risk behavouirs, as well as aspects of these issues related to the body and emotions.
Skills:
Moreover, the students will have trained their ability to
- compare and contrast key theoretical perspectives that are central to the wider MA specialization in Culture, Lifestyle and Everyday Life
- identify significant historical and contemporary developments in the field.
- apply and critically discuss key theoretical concepts within the thematic field of Culture, Lifestyle and Everyday Life, particularly related to of urban cultural contexts marked by conflicts, contested lifeforms, and delinquency
- review scientic litteraruew and prodcue an state of the art.
Competences:
Further, the student will be able to
- identify and analyze social interactions in relation to the interplay between cultural and pre-cultural processes of social life
- apply a problem based approach to analyze and explain cultural phenomena, including how theses analyses can inform practical interventions.
The total curriculum is app. 1200 pages. Texts will be avaiable online. In addition, students are required to choose supplementary reading materials for their project work (app. 400 pages).
The lectures will include presentations by external professionals within crime and urban areas: city planners, crime prevention units, police and architects.
- Category
- Hours
- Exam Preparation
- 90
- Exercises
- 90
- Lectures
- 56
- Preparation
- 140
- Theory exercises
- 37
- Total
- 413
Registration deadline for courses is June 1 for Autumn semester and December 1 for Spring semester.
Registration deadline for Summer school is June 1.
When registered you will be signed up for exam.
Exchange students must sign up by filling in an application form
which you find
here:
course registration
Meritstuderende:
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- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Portfolio, -Portfolio with oral defence. Individual or group. A portfolio assignment is defined as a series of short assignments during the course that address one or more set questions and feedback is offered during the course. All of the assignments are submitted together for assessment at the end of the course.
The portfolio assignments must be no longer than 30 pages. For group assignments, an extra 15 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet. - Exam registration requirements
No specific registration requirements.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASOK15102U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See schedule
- Study board
- Department of Sociology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Sociology
Course responsibles
- Jakob Johan Demant (2-706a4679756934717b346a71)
Lecturers
Jakob Johan Demant, jd@soc.ku.dk