Module Code - Title:
SO5051
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RESEARCHING SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The concept of exclusion forms the central focus around which this module is organised, it offers the possibility of considering how finely tuned are the mechanisms whereby we are integrated or cut off from full involvement in the wider society.
Syllabus:
The course critically interrogates the concept of social exclusion examining its economic, social, cultural, political and ideological underpinnings. It focuses in particular on the process of æotheringÆ as a practice of domination and the subtle ways in which privilege is reproduced. Through the course students will be enabled to untangle the notion of exclusion, its dynamics, processes involved, the implications of exclusion and the structural, cultural and ideological issues underlying this phenomenon and its reproduction. Through BourdieuÆs conceptual arsenal students will be facilitated to consider the hierarchial ordering of the process of exclusion and the multi-faceted and interlinked nature of domination, privilege and exclusion.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
At the end of the course students will be able:
* define what is social exclusion, understand the process of conceptualisation and operationalisation and its significance in terms of doing research
* be familiar with issues around conceptualisation, the muddy nature of defining æsocial realityÆ, the key disciplinary debates inherent in defining and æcordoning offÆ such a complex, emotive and widely used concept
* set out some of the core methodological issues around power, position, perception and difference
* conduct a sound literature review
* identify research approaches and methods that best suit specific research questions
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
N/A
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught through a combination of lecturers, tutorials and self directed learning.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
N/A
Prime Texts:
Bourdieu, P. (1984)
Distinctions
, Routledge and Keegan Paul
Bourdieu, P. (1986)
The Forms of Capital¿ in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, ed. J.G. Richardson
, New York: Greenwood Press.
Byrne, D. (1999)
Social Exclusion
, Cambridge : Sage.
Grosky, D.B. and Scelengic, S. (2006)
Classic readings in Race,Class and Gender. Cambridge MA:
, Westview Press
Ridge, T. and Wright, S. (2008)
Understanding inequality, poverty and wealth.
, Polity
Other Relevant Texts:
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Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
Mary.ODonoghue@ul.ie