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SOCX3025 – Exploring Everyday Life and Culture

2022 – Session 2, Online-flexible

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Selvaraj Velayutham
selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

A rich sociological tradition as well as contemporary research highlight the extraordinariness of ‘ordinary’ life and culture. In all that we do social norms and cultural attitudes are entwined with structural conditions. But we are more than workers, economic actors, or citizens. We are also lovers and friends, children, siblings and parents. We spend time pursuing leisure activities, inhabit a range of private and public spaces, engage with a variety of media, find pleasure in eating and consuming. So, how do we negotiate our freedoms and constraints, individual agency and its limits, the tension between tradition and the new, the boundaries of self and other? This unit explores the extraordinary social accomplishment of ordinary life. All enrolment queries should be directed to Open Universities Australia (OUA): see www.open.edu.au

Important Academic Dates

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: understand key concepts, issues and contemporary debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • ULO2: analyse historical and contemporary practices of everyday life and culture.
  • ULO3: describe the social constraints and enabling mechanism of everyday life, such as class, gender and cultural background.
  • ULO4: demonstrate research skills in sourcing and analysing key arguments and debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • ULO5: conduct independent research.

General Assessment Information

Echo recordings are availble for OUA students.

Please note that lectures in Module 1 Everyday Intimacies are pre-recorded.

Students must complete the weekly tutorial questions as evidence of their participation.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Participation Journal 20% No Ongoing
Conceptual Essay 30% No Friday Week 6
Research Essay 50% No Friday Week 13

Participation Journal

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 20%

 

Responses to weekly questions

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • understand key concepts, issues and contemporary debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • analyse historical and contemporary practices of everyday life and culture.
  • describe the social constraints and enabling mechanism of everyday life, such as class, gender and cultural background.

Conceptual Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 35 hours
Due: Friday Week 6
Weighting: 30%

 

This essay aims to give students the opportunity to show their comprehension of the concepts covered in the beginning section of the unit.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • understand key concepts, issues and contemporary debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • analyse historical and contemporary practices of everyday life and culture.
  • describe the social constraints and enabling mechanism of everyday life, such as class, gender and cultural background.
  • demonstrate research skills in sourcing and analysing key arguments and debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • conduct independent research.

Research Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Friday Week 13
Weighting: 50%

 

This research essay aims to give students the opportunity to show their comprehension of the material covered in the unit by way of a standard essay (Introduction, body, conclusion).

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • understand key concepts, issues and contemporary debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • analyse historical and contemporary practices of everyday life and culture.
  • describe the social constraints and enabling mechanism of everyday life, such as class, gender and cultural background.
  • demonstrate research skills in sourcing and analysing key arguments and debates in the sociology of everyday life and cultural sociology.
  • conduct independent research.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

All required readings are avilable on ilearn.

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Results

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Unit information based on version 2022.03 of the Handbook