Unit name | Global Ethnicities |
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Unit code | SOCIM2119 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Steve Fenton |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will interrogate the concept 'ethnicity' and 'ethnicities' and in particular raise the question of whether the generalised term implies a general phenomenon. Can there be a core meaning to the term ethnicity in multiple contexts across the world? This requires us to consider how far the sociology of ethnicity can be genuinely comparative. Seminars focus on a set of individual cases in a range of countries or regions, with both explicit and implicit comparisons. These include some of the following: Britain, USA, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, former Yugoslavia, and others. The last two seminars examine 'indigenist' ethnicities and the role of state power and predictability.
Aims:
The main method of teaching will be weekly face-to-face seminar sessions which will involve a combination of lecturing, group discussion and student presentations.
The assessment will relate directly to one of more of the learning outcomes specified above in 15 and will be an extended essay of 4000 words (or equivalent) showing an in-depth understanding and integration of key aspects of the unit.