Zygmunt bauman Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Texts included: - 1) Hannah Arendt A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence [1969] 2) Ann Stoler Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power [2010] 3) Mahmood Mamdani Making sense of political violence in post-colonial Africa [2003] 4) Achille Mbembe Necropolitics [2003] 5) Zygmunt Bauman Modernity & and the Holocaust [1989] 6) Philippe Bourgios & Nancy Scheper-Hughes Violence in War and Peace [2000] 6) Jelke Boesten Sexual Violence during War and Peace [2014] 7) Chantal Mouffe On the Politica...

Texts included: 1) Hannah Arendt A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence [1969] 2) Ann Stoler Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power [2010] 3) Mahmood Mamdani Making sense of political violence in post-colonial Africa [2003] 4) Achille Mbembe Necropolitics [2003] 5) Zygmunt Bauman Modernity & and the Holocaust [1989] 6) Philippe Bourgios & Nancy Scheper-Hughes Violence in War and Peace [2000] 6) Jelke Boesten Sexual Violence during War and Peace [2014] 7) Ch...

Notes on week 5 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. This session looks at poverty with a theoretical approach. Topics covered: Zygmunt Bauman, liquid modernity, Globalization, The consumer society, Space and the Ghetto, Gentrification, Ghettoization, voluntary ghetto, involuntary ghetto, Poverty and Consumption, Welfare & Poverty.

•What is theory? •Why is theory so important? •Deductive And Inductive Reasoning •Theory testing: From theory to data •Sociological perspectives: Classic theoretical orientations Explanatory Research, Descriptive Research , Exploratory Research. Qualitative vs Quantitive Research

The McDonaldization of society – George Ritzer On glocalization: or globalization for some, localization for some others – Zygmunt Bauman A global sense of place – Doreen Massey Meanings of place: everyday experience and theoretical conceptualizations – Per Gustafson Mobilities and the English village: moving beyond fixity in rural west Yorkshire – Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins Language use on the move: site of encounter, identities and belonging – Valentine et al. Deconstructing communit...