School Of Social Sciences And PsychologyTheories for Critical PracticeWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101888.1
Discipline: STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
400585 - Theories of the Social
About this Unit
In 2015 this unit replaced by 102179 - Theories of the Social. This unit examines social and practitioner theories that inform and provide critical perspectives upon a range of disciplines and professions. Students will reflect upon the relationships between theory, social practice and professional practice. The unit examines these relationships by deploying such key constructs as: subjectivity, agency and identity; power and resistance; class, economy and consumption; social change; globalisation and nationhood; gender and sexuality; race and colonisation; governmentality and social discipline; mobilities and place. Students will consider the social, political and discursive processes through which theories are made and applied, and how theories limit and create possibilities for research and practice.
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