Unit Code:	SOC2SOC
Alternative Unit Code:	SOC3SOC
Unit Short Title:	SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	What makes a human being? What shapes character? What gives a person direction? Which laws are obeyed, and why? In which way does a society form, or alternatively, deform, its individuals? In this subject we look at the central role 'culture' plays in all these issues. We consider repression and shame, authority and myth, initiation and psychic balance, transgression and forgiveness and attempts to show how such forces conspire to create culture and what culture therefore means - given the instinctual bog out of which it is born. Drawing upon Western literature, art and film we go on to examine cultural breakdown and its dire consequences for both individual and society. At the same time we look at the nature of cultural restoration.
Prerequisites:	30 credit points of first year sociology or anthropology, or AST1IJI and AST1ICI, or co-ordinator's approval
Class Requirements:	one 3-hour seminar per week. For a pass in this subject students must attend at least 10 of the 12 seminars starting with Week 2
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 1,500-word essay	30
one 3,500-word essay	70	Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline specific skills in their written work than second year students.

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Preliminary	Heart of darkness	Conrad, J.	any edition
Preliminary	The last days of Socrates	Plato	any edition
Prescribed	Portrait of a lady	James, H.	any edition
Prescribed	The birth of tragedy	Nietzsche, F.	any edition

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   26-JUL-10   29-OCT-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Professor	John	Carroll	BUNDOORA	Y