Prerequisites for Module
None.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To provide the student with a sociological understanding of childhood and the concept of 'youth' as a distinct stage in the lifecycle.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Analyse sociologically the concept 'childhood'.
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Critically evaluate an important aspect of childhood or children's life experience.
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Show a critical understanding of the ideas and processes underpinning the emergence of youth as a distinctive stage in the life-course.
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Indicative Module Content
An introduction to the sociology of childhood.
The social construction of childhood.
Representation and images of children.
Varying experiences of chiuldhood.
Childre's rights and the chnaging status of childhood.
Young people and demographic change.
Theories of youth.
Young people: culture, sub-culture and mass culture.
| Contemporary youth - a problem?
Young people and the family.
Young people: work, leisure and health.
Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Full Time | Lectures
| 18 | Seminars
| 12 |
Directed Study
| | Directed Study
| 58 |
Private Study
| | Private Study
| 62 |
Mode of Delivery
Via lectures, seminars/tasks and student centred learning.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Coursework | 1,2
| | Coursework | 3
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One Essay assesses Learning Outcome 3.
One Essay assesses Learning Outcomes 1 and 2.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | GITTINS, D., 1998. The Child in Question. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
| | 2. | HENDRY, L. B., 1993. Young People's Leisure and Lifestyles. London: Routledge.
| | 3. | LEE, N., 2001. Childhood and Society Growing up in an Age of Uncertainty. Buckingham: Open University Press.
| | 4. | ROCHE, J. et al, 2004. Youth in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice. 2nd ed. London: Sage.
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