This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars and online materials totalling a minimum of 20 hours in the LT, and 1 hour in the ST.Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in LT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT. Formative assessment will be through a 2000 word essay to be handed in on the Monday of Week 7, directly after Reading Week. Students will also be asked to give presentations in seminars, and informal feedback will be given on these.
Piketty, T., (2014), Capital in the 21st Century, Boston, Harvard UP. Khan, S., (2010), Privilege, Princeton, Princeton UP. Dorling, D., (2014), Inequality and the 1%, London, Verso. Savage, M., and Williams, K., (eds) (2008), Remembering Elites, Oxford, Blackwells. Scott, J., (1982), The Upper Class, Macmillan.
Exam (50%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (50%, 2000 words) in the ST. An electronic copy of the assessed essay, to be uploaded to Moodle, no later than 4.00pm on the first Wednesday of Summer Term. Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.