Imagining Social Worlds Week 1 Lecture

Imagining Social Worlds Week 1 Lecture 

• There are several objects/ underlying mechanisms that can be studied to learn about the social world/society. 

Frameworks  

• Geertz- the analysis of culture is an interpretative science in search of meaning  

• C.Wright Mills- It is crucial to understand both the life of and individual and the history of a society to comprehend both  

• Archer- Were we not reflexive beings there could be no such thing as society- because subjects know themselves to be themselves.  

Assessments Term 1 

• Critical Summary of key text – 500 words 

• Essay on approaches to Imagining the Social World- 2500 words 

Assessments Term 2 

• Research Portfolio- 2500 words – 1 research topic, 2 research design summaries  

• (Research papers 

• Scholars 

• Case studies  

• Google scholar  

• Jstor ) 

BOOKS 

• Research monographs  

• Ethnographies  

• Chapters from edited collections  

• Social theory  

• Undergraduate textbooks  

• Handbooks/ Reference books  

PEER- REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES  

• Primary research  

• Research synthesis/reviews  

• Secondary analysis 

• Theoretical development 

• Comment/Position articles  

• Setting research agendas