Unit

Graduate Research School

Rethinking Culture and SocietyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 800196.1

Discipline: OTHER SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Student Contribution Band: 4

Level: 7

Credit Points: 10

Co ordinator
Gregory Noble

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Unit Enrolment Restrictions
This unit is considered mandatory for students supervised within the Institute for Culture and Society

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Teaching Periods
Nothing on offer.

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About this Unit
This unit explores key ideas in social and cultural analysis – such as culture, society, experience, power, nature, local/global, etc – as a way of helping students think through their own research projects. It draws on an approach to cultural and social research, developed at the Institute for Culture and Society, which addresses the contradictions of a world that is increasingly globalised, culturally diverse and technologically mediated. A key aspect of this approach is to revisit the central concepts of social and cultural theory, linked to an overview of existing approaches, developing skills of critical analysis and reflecting on the challenges of interdisciplinarity, methodological pluralism, cultural complexity and engaged research.

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Courses

8083.2

Bachelor of Research Studies

CURRENT

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