1. Preparing for Success in Year 2
Tips, Regulations and Options for BSocSci Sociology Students
Dr Elisa Bellotti(Programme Director)

2. Congratulations! You have…
Gained theoretical and empirical knowledge
Seen the importance of rigorous and systematic methods of inquiry
Started developing appropriate learning styles
Improved skills, such as:
working with concepts and information,
communicating ideas
thinking analytically
Experienced assessment and gathered feedback
Made friends and discovered Manchester

3. Exams still to come…
There’s lots of guidance available on exams. You can:
Use the Learning Commons resources on Exam Extra
Check out the learning essential website
Talk to your lecturers or academic advisors ( for office hour appointments)

4. What next? Chose your course Units in 2018-19
Make your selection via my.manchester.ac.uk
Do it before 7th August 2018!
Full details in your options booklet
Also see 5 Steps to course unit selection:

5. Year 2 Core Content Plus And
SOCY20091
Qualitative Social Research Design and Methods
Madeline-Sophie (Maddy) Abbas
SOST20012
The Survey Method in Social Research
Mark Brown
Plus
60 credits of units from the sociology options
Leaving you 20 credits of free choice optional units, which can be:
- an additional Sociology unit
- a unit from another Social Science discipline (Politics, Economics, Social Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Statistics)
- a unit from another School (e.g. Arts, Languages and Cultures), with permission from Sociology Programme Director.
You should balance your workload fairly evenly between the two semesters (i.e. 60 credits per semester).
Total: 120 credits
And
ProD workshops: not credit bearing but completion of ProD will be noted on your academic transcript

6. Professional Development for Sociologists
Year 2 Prod Sessions this year were:
Assessed Essay Writing for Level 2
Careers
Your Digital Identity
Striving for a First: Critical Thinking in Sociology
Q-step internships
Dissertation Showcase
Combined in 3 half days
Check the ProD Blackboard website for next year updates.
We’re working on other potential ProD content. If there’s something you’d really like to see included let us know! Contact us via your reps or

7. Sociology Options Choosing your second year Sociology course units

8. Year 2 Sociology Options – Semester 1
SOCY20091
* Compulsory
Qualitative Social Research Design & Methods
Madeline-Sophie (Maddy) Abbas
SOCY20031
Work, Economy and Society
Kevin Gillan
SOCY20041
Social Network Analysis
Martin Everett
SOCY20081
Sociology of Science
Elisa Bellotti
SOCY20271
Global Migration
Alice Bloch
SOCY20281
Social Change in China
Yaojun Li
SOCY20891
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Petra Nordqvist
SOCY20501
Social thought from the global south
Simin Fadaee

9. SOCY20091: Qualitative Methods and Research Design
Lecturer: Madeline-Sophie (Maddy) Abbas
Office: Arthur Lewis, 3rd floor, 3.042
Module Structure
Weekly lectures (2 hours) (Thursday 2-4pm?)
Weekly tutorials (1 hour) – sign up to a tutorial group using the Student System
N.B. to get the most from the course it is essential that you prepare for lectures and tutorials.

10. Before each tutorial
Read the required reading - available on Blackboard in advance (additional readings in the module handbook)
Make some notes on it, relating it to the key issues discussed in the lecture.
Complete the additional coursework exercise for the tutorial where applicable
The Module Handbook contains details of what will be covered and preparation

11. Assessment Non-assessed assignment:
3 elements of assessment: 1 non-assessed, 2 assessed.
NO EXAM!
Non-assessed assignment:
Coursework exercises (making up a research portfolio – 10 mark penalty for non-submission)
Coursework exercises must be completed in preparation for tutorials 2-7
Practical/thinking exercises – develop key research skills e.g. conducting interviews, data analysis etc.
Full participation in tutorials is vital!
Collated into research portfolio - submit ‘as you go’, in the last tutorial, or by the end of term

12. Assessed assignments Critical review (40%) Research design (60%)
Methodological review of chosen piece of published research
Applying knowledge and ideas from course to evaluate a study
1,500 words
Research design (60%)
Design a small-scale qualitative social research project
Don’t carry it out! Just design it (but it should be feasible)
2,500 words

13. SOCY20031: Work, Economy & Society Kevin Gillan
Big Concepts and How to Use Them
Tutorial: The boundaries of capitalism.
1,500 word Essay (35%) 2
Money, Markets, Firms and Work
Tutorial: Finding power in capitalist systems. 3
Globalisation and the New Capitalism
Tutorial: The big globalisation debate.
Short Presentation (15%) 4
Capitalism and Crisis
Tutorial: What’s wrong with the banks? 5
Economy and Culture
Tutorial: Is consumption the new religion? 6
The Social Relations of the Corporation
Tutorial: (How) Can a corporation be socially responsible?
2 hr Exam (50%) 7
Discipline and Surveillance in the Workplace
Tutorial: Internalising control. 8
Routinization, Flexibility & Precarity
Tutorial: What is a flexible worker? 9
Emotional Labour
Tutorial: Emotional and physical labour in the sex industry. 10
The Future of Work: Some Radical Approaches
Tutorial: Course review; exam preparation.
SOCY20031: Work, Economy & Society Kevin Gillan
This is a medium-sized course ( students per year), generally drawing on BSocSci Sociology, BASS and BAEcon students. If follows neatly from the first year Work, Organisations and Society, but that is NOT a prerequisite. It is interdisciplinary, in that it draws together economic sociology, political economy and a little economics. The first half of the course examines big socio-economic structures and trends that make up contemporary capitalism. The second half investigates how those structures and trends make a difference to our lives through the organisation of work and (to a lesser extent) consumption. We close by considering some radical arguments concerning the desirability and feasibility of a leisure society – that is, a world without work. 13

14. Social Network Analysis Martin Everett
Learn to analyze and draw data like
this where dots are people
lines are relationships.
1 hour lecture
2 hour computer lab
No essay but
computer assignment
Methodological

15. SOCY20282 – Sociology of Science Elisa Bellotti
Understanding the processes of scientific knowledge production, invention and innovation
Raising questions about power, hierarchies, controversies and alliances
Using classical and contemporary theoretical approaches from structural functionalism to actor-network theory
Field trips and guest speakers!
Assessments & Assignments:
Assessed essay analysing empirical materials used throughout (2000 words, 50% of mark)
Exam (50% of mark)
SOCY20282 – Sociology of Science Elisa Bellotti

16. Global Migration Alice Bloch
Theoretical approaches to migration
Gender perspectives
Highly skilled migrants
Walking tour of migration in Manchester (SRC funded)
Migration, border controls and their impact (dangerous journeys, smugglers
Responding to migration and diversity
Migration, race and racism
Transnationalism and second generation
Assessment:
1x 2,000 word essay = 50%
1x Exam = 50%
Current issues explored
Reflections and discussion
Critical thinking
Debates

17. Social Change in China
Yaojun Li

18. Main topics covered: I
One hundred years’ survival struggle ( )
Unprecedented change from extreme poverty to being the (2nd?) largest economic powerhouse ( )
The socialist restructuring of the economy ( )
The institutionalisation of the household registration (hukou) system (from 1958 onwards)
The workplace unit (danwei) system within the urban sector (1956 onwards)
The chaos of the Cultural Revolution that brought the country to the verge of collapse ( )

19. Main topics covered: II
‘Up the mountains, down the villages’: 30 million urban youths ‘sent-down’ for ‘re-education’ by peasants ( )
The reforms (1978ff) – rise of meritocracy or new polarisation?
One-child policy ( ) and consequences
Massive migration (280 million) since 1980s – second-class citizens? left-behind children, women and old; and hollowing of the countryside
Growing social inequality amidst increasing prosperity: quality of life and subject well-being
Social mobility, ethnic integration and social justice in China versus other countries such as Britain
China, the most populous country in the world, full of challenges and hopes, is also a most fascinating society and research topic
Join us and become an expert on China

20. Social thought from the global south
Simin Fadaee

21. Social thought from the global South is not necessarily about the global South but it often is.
Intellectuals from the global South have also analysed worldwide structures and the global North.
In sociology we usually learn and think about theorists who come from societies that have a particular historical experience linked to colonialism and imperialism.
There must be a linkage between global power structures and social theory.

22. Illustrate Demonstrate Introduce Encourage
Illustrate how and why classical and mainstream social theory is Eurocentric and constructed from the point of view of the global North.
Illustrate
Demonstrate how a systematic engagement with the global South contributes to a more global and inclusive social science.
Demonstrate
Introduce the most important theories and social thinkers from the global South.
Introduce
Encourage students to critically reflect on the debates and issues raised by social thinkers from the global South.
Encourage

23. Eurocentrism
Power
Indigenous knowledge
Dependency
Islam
Violence
Underdevelopment
Colonialism

26. SOCY20891 Gender, Sexuality and Culture Petra Nordqvist Petra
SOCY20891 Gender, Sexuality and Culture Petra Nordqvist
Course content Feminism Gender, race and class Masculinities and femininities Gender, sexuality and culture Sex as science Foucault and the history of sexuality Sexual liberation Trans and intersex
In popular discourse men and women are often seen as naturally different This course explores gender and sexuality as socially constructed categories We challenge taken for granted ideas about men, women, heterosexuality, homosexuality etc We draw on historical and contemporary examples

27. Year 2 Sociology Options – Semester 2
SOCY20021
* Compulsory
The Survey Method in Social Research
Mark Brown
SOCY20241
New Media
Martin Everett
SOCY20012
Sociology of Popular Music
TBC
SOCY20022
Nature, Environment and Risk
Richie Nimmo
SOCY20052
Education and Society
Sue Heath
SOCY20032
Sustainability, Consumption & Global Responsibilities
SCI team
SOCY20402
Self and Society
Owen Abbott
SOCY20962
Racism and Ethnicity in the UK
Bethan Harris
SOCY2xxx2
Social Class and inequality in Britain
Andy Miles
Sociology of fashion
Sophie Woodward

28. Want to develop your data skills?
4 courses from Social Statistics
Semester 1
SOST20031 Research Design & Statistical Inference
SOST20031 Market Research (10 credits)
Semester 2
SOST20012 The Survey Method in Social Research
SOST20022: Essentials of Survey Design and Analysis
Q- Step Internships..

29. Develop and apply your data skills with a PAID Summer Internship www
Develop and apply your data skills with a PAID Summer Internship

30. New Media Martin Everett
A general social science course that looks at the relationship of new media with people and society by examining the social, political, economic and cultural consequences of an increasingly networked world. Based on a course book. Look at questions such as…. Does social media destroy or enhance communities?

31. Sociology of Popular Music Nick Crossley
RACE
TASTE
INDUSTRY
MUSIC WORLDS
BOURDIEU
MEANING
ADORNO
INNOVATION
BECKER
CLASS
GENDER

32. Sociology of Nature, Environment and Risk
Dr Richie Nimmo
Looks at
The role of concepts of ‘nature’ in shaping sociology .
Sociological perspectives on the relationship between
human society and the natural environment.
The emergence of environmental sociology.
How historical changes such as industrialisation and urbanisation led to changing perceptions of ‘nature’.
Philosophical and theoretical questions (e.g. whether nature is ‘real’ or socially constructed).
Changing relations between humans and animals (followed up in-depth in 3rd year option).
Things to be aware of
The course will appeal to those who enjoy thinking with concepts and theories as well as having an interest in environmental issues.
Assessment includes an essay (50%) and exam (50%), as well as a compulsory group presentation on one of the following social-environmental issues:
climate change; food; water; disease; population; consumption; transport; energy; disasters.

33. EDUCATION AND SOCIETY Sue Heath
Should schooling serve the interests of the state?
Can a good education change your future?
Are schools post-feminist spaces?
What does a private education buy you?
What’s the point of a degree?
How do you become a popular pupil?
Do LGBT pupils still have a hard time in school?
Are white working class boys really the new underdogs?
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER BEEN IN
OR NEAR A SCHOOL!

34. “Sustainability, Consumption and Global Responsibilities” SOCY20232
Course Convenor: Dan Welch (Sociology & Sustainable Consumption Institute)

35. Explores the contribution that sociology can make to perhaps the most pressing issue of our times: climate change and the sustainability crisis
Draws on the sociology of consumption, consumer culture and sustainable consumption, as well as theories of commodification, gender, innovation, technology and social change

36. Learning Outcomes
Understand the relationships between consumption and global processes
Understand the complexities and contradictions that are inherent in sustainability debates
Have an appreciation of the various actors and organisations that are responding to the challenges of sustainable consumption
Grasp key approaches to consumption and social change

37. Sustainable development and sustainable consumption:
Week
Topic 1
Sustainable development and sustainable consumption:
everyday life and consumption 2
Sociological approaches to consumption and consumer culture: the sociology of consumption 3
Consumption, economic growth and well-being 4
Sustainable consumption and gender 5
Commodities in local and global contexts: value, exchange and geographies of consumption 6
Ethical consumption: ethics, responsibility and citizenship 7
Fair Trade and ‘free trade’ 8
Business, innovation and sustainable consumption 9
Behavioural change, technology and sustainable consumption policy: challenging mainstream understandings of behaviour 10
Sustainability transitions and neoliberalism: addressing systemic change and the politics of sustainability

38. Assessment 50% assessed essay from weeks 1 – 5
50% exam – two essay questions out of five (weeks 6 – 10)

39. SOCY20042 Self and Society Owen Abbott
Course Aims
• Introduce students to sociological
approaches to the study of self
• Provide students with a theoretical
understanding of the links between
self and society
• Provide students with conceptual
tools for studying individuals in
society

40. Lecture Overview 1. Introduction: Self, society and belonging
2. A relational view of self and society
3. Goffman and the Presenting a self
4. Classed inequalities: Bourdieu, habitus, capital and symbolic boundaries
5. Ethnicity and inequality
6. Embodied selves
7. Digital selves
8. Temporal selves
9. Globalisation and the creation of neoliberal subjects
10. Overview and exam prep

41. SOCY20962: RACISM AND ETHNICITY IN THE UK Bethan Harris
Important time to be studying the nature and significance of racism in ethnicity in the UK.
In light of Brexit, new nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiments, continuing Islamophobia and racialised inequalities
Assessment is one essay and one exam, with a non-assessed essay plan.
Important time to be studying the nature and significance of racism in ethnicity in the UK.
In light of Brexit, new nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiments, continuing Islamophobia and racialised inequalities
Assessment is one essay and one exam with a non-assessed essay plan.

42. Critical whiteness studies
Race, class and gender
Brexit
Islamophobia
‘Race’ and racialization
Institutional racism
Start with theoretical foundations, looking at ‘race’ as a socio-historical and political construction, explore concept of racialisation, links between race and nation, critical whiteness studies. and interactions of race, class and gender, and explore post-racial debates
Then look at contemporary issues of Islamophobia, institutional racism, and Brexit
Start with theoretical foundations, looking at ‘race’ as a socio-historical and political construction, explore concept of racialisation, links between race and nation, critical whiteness studies. and interactions of race, class and gender, and explore post-racial debates
Then look at contemporary issues of Islamophobia, institutional racism, and Brexit

43. Social class and inequality in Britain
Prof. Andrew Miles

44. Social class and sociology – questions of history and philosophy
The ‘zombie’ category and its revival in academic theory and political discourse
The individualisation of class
The Great British Class Survey - A new class system?
Elites and and the metropolitan vortex
The crisis of social mobility
Class and ‘intersectionality’
Brexit and ‘class politics’
Social class and sociology – issues of method and data

45. Sociology of fashion Sophie Woodward Student projects
Vintage and individualism
Grunge (subcultures and mass fashion)
Luxury and mass fashion

46. Any questions for course leaders?
any queries to:
- the relevant Course leader.
- your Academic Advisor.
- to me (Programme Director):
- to Chantel Riley (Administrator):

47. Also Consider… Q-Step Internship Programme
A paid internship over the summer after year 2: up to 8 weeks carrying out a quantitative research project
The compulsory Survey Method core unit means you’re eligible to apply in May 2017
Placements have included national government departments, BBC, The Times, YouGov, World Bank, Santander, Race Relations Centre, FutureEverything and many more…
Info here:
Manchester Leadership Programme
Optional 10 or 20 credit modules including volunteering activities.
Info here:
University College
Optional 10 or 20 credit modules that use interdisciplinary teaching to tackle the grand challenges faced by the world today
Info here: