MODULE SPECIFICATION
Code: UPSN8D-30-M Title: Identity Version: 1
Level: M UWE credit rating: 30 ECTS credit rating: 15
Module type: Standard
Owning Faculty: Social Sciences and Humanities Field: Sociology and Criminology
Faculty Committee approval: QSC Date: 28th April 2010
Approved for Delivery by: ( indicate name of affiliated institution if module will only be delivered by them)
Valid from: September 2010 Discontinued from:
Contributes towards: |
M.Sc Psycho-Social Studies |
Pre-requisites: a social science degree or equivalent gained from professional or related experience
Co-requisites:
Entry requirements: Relevant professional experience/expertise
(If the module is offered as CPD or stand alone, indicate the entry requirements)
Excluded combinations: N/A
Learning outcomes
1. At the end of the module students will have gained a rich understanding of the key social, cultural and emotional factors that influence identity (component A and B)
2. Gained critical insight into the ways in which social and organisational roles draw on and structure identities through processes of conscious and unconscious identification (components A and B)
3. Evaluate the relationships between political discourses and processes and the formation of group identities (components A)
4. Demonstrate a capacity to think reflexively about the relevance of personal and group identity/ies for improved work/professional and social practices. (components A and B)
5. Developed a clear understanding of the influence of social structure, personal relationships, culture and beliefs on gendered,stigmatised, racialised and sexualised identities (component B)
6. Gained an appreciation of the influence of the unconscious and subliminally emotional aspects of identity, culture and beliefs and the ways in which emotions are carried through inter-personal and social relationships (components A and B)
7. Gained a theorised understanding of factors which lead to the experience of loss of identity – including the impact of personal, social, political and organisational upheaval and change. (component B)
8. Gained the capacity to apply knowledge to understanding concrete social and work situations (components A and B)
Syllabus outline:
• Introduction to key concepts which help us think about culture and the ways in which it influences everyday social and political life and the life of organisations including discourse theory and structuration theory.
• Beliefs – including the influence of religious, spiritual, political and common-sense understandings of the world
• Psychoanalytic theories of unconscious identification in the formation of identity and their relevance for social, political and organisational/professional and work roles
• The psycho-dynamics of group identities and their relationship to broader organisational, social and political processes, including the influence of the nation state
• Identity and subjectivity and their relationship to social inequalities
• Racialised, national and local identities, ‘heart-land’ identities
• Sexual identities
• gendered identities
• The loss of identity and its personal, political and social implications
• The struggle for new identities – the impact of change on personal identity and consequences for others
Teaching and learning methods:
This module will be delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and on-line discussion forums to enhance independent learning and group and individual support.
Reading Strategy
Students will be encouraged to read widely using a variety of bibliographic and full text databases, and Internet resources. In addition they will be provided with access to the Blackboard System where they will find additional electronically available reading materials. Chapters from several key works will be available electronically via the Library’s Digital Collections.
Indicative Reading List: (see guidance notes)
The following list is offered to provide validation panels/accrediting bodies with an indication of the type and level of information students may be expected to consult. As such, its currency may wane during the life span of the module specification. However, as indicated above, CURRENT advice on readings will be available via other more frequently updated mechanisms.
Anderson, B. (1983) Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
Bauman, Z (2004), Identity Cambridge: Polity
Bauman, Z (2005), Liquid Life Cambridge: Polity
Butler, J. (1997) The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Clarke, S., Hoggett, P. & Thompson, S. (eds) (2006) Emotion, Politics and Society. Introductory and concluding chapters.
Elias, N (l978), The Civilizing Process Oxford: Blackwell
Ellis, C (2004), The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel About Autoethnograph Oxford: Altamira Press
Freud, A (2005), The Essentials of Psycho-analysis: Sigmund Freud London: Vintage
Freud, S (1921) Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. (in his selected works)
du gay, p evans, p and redman, p (eds) (2000), Identity: a reader London: Sage Publications
Flugel, J C (l962), Man, Morals and Society London: Peregrine Books
Goodwin, J Jasper, J & Polletta, F (2001) Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. Chicago University Press. Chap 1.
Hall S & du gay P (eds) (l996), Questions of Cultural Identity London: Sage
Hogg, M & .Abrams, D (1995) Social Identifications: A Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and Group Processes. Routledge.
Hoggett, P (2009) Politics, Identity and Emotion, Boulder, Col:Paradigm
Richards, B (l989), Crisis of the Self: Further Essays on Psychoanalysis and Politics, London: Free Association Books
Rose, N (2000), ‘ Identity, Genealogy’, History’ in paul du gay et al (eds) Identity: a reader London: Sage Publications
Scheler, M (1992) “Emotional identification”, in Scheler, On Feeling, Knowing and Identifying. Chicago University Press. Ch. 3.
Skeggs, B (1997) Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable London: Sage.
Smith, A. (2003) Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity. Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Weighting between components A and B (standard modules only) A: 25% B: 75%
ATTEMPT 1
First Assessment Opportunity (Sit)
Component A
Element weighting
1 A 20 minute individual oral presentation 25%
Component B Element weighting
1. A 6000 word essay in the manner of a journal article 50%
2. Submission of reflective journal 25%
(final assessment)
Second Assessment Opportunity (Resit) (further attendance at taught classes is not required)
Element weighting
Component A
1. A viva 25%
Component B
1. A 6000 word essay in the manner of a journal article 50%
2. Submission of reflective journal 25%
(final assessment)
EXCEPTIONAL SECOND (OR SUBSEQUENT) ATTEMPT: Attendance at taught classes is not required.
Specification confirmed by …………………………………………………Date ……………………………
(Associate Dean/Programme Director)