University of Roehampton (RU)

Notes on week 7 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology module. Topics covered: Visual Sociology and Ethics, Do photographs reflect reality? Images used in sociology, Photo Voice, Photo-elicitation of Poverty, Analysis image data (realism, semiology, denotation, connotation, mythologizing), Research Ethics, Professional Integrity, Relationship and responsibility to response participants.

Notes on week 6 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: Representation of Poverty in the News, Do you believe everything you read in the news? If not, why? What criteria do you use to decide whether you believe something or not? Why is the news important? How is the news created? Journalists' code of practice, Neoliberalism and Journalism, the news environment, Poverty in the news, reporting poverting, writing about poverty.

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.

Notes on week 4 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: What is social policy? How does it get made (looking at Universal Credit as an example)? What is evidence-based policy making? What is ideology-based policy making? Launch of the Universal Credit, gathering evidence for Universal Credit, Understanding policy documents, Pros and cons of two different approaches to making policy, Evidence based policy in theory, Evidence based policy in practice.

Notes on week 3 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered in these notes: guidance on how to complete the report writing assessment on Poverty in the UK, how to make use of feedback from written assignments.

Notes on week 2 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered in these notes: Politics of Poverty, Formation of the welfare state (1945 – 1970-ish), Margaret Thatcher, 1979 – 1990, New Labour, 1997 – 2020, Austerity Britain, 2010 – 2015, 2015 – Present, Timeline of UK political attitudes to poverty, The long-term unemployed: Work and Poverty, Poverty and Disability, What does having a job do to your life? (how does your life change when you get a...

Notes on week 1 of the module Practicing Sociology. This a a Sociology degree module. This module focuses on poverty in the UK. Topics covered: Aim of this module, the assessments for the module, Why Poverty? How will we explore poverty? Structure, agency, Why are some people rich and some people poor? Is poverty just about how much money you have? How do you know when someone is poor? (E.g. what characterises poverty?) What things are essential for you to have in order to live in London today? ...

Notes on week 10 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. This was the last class for the module where the tutor gave a recap of the topics that were covered over the course of 10 weeks. Topics covered: Goffman, Stigma, The Own & the Wise, Moral Career, Moral Career - Outcomes, Ego Identity, deminstrelization/minstrelization, In-group alignments, Out-group alignments, The Self and Its Other, Criticisms of Goffman.

Notes on week 9 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. Topics covered: Erving Goffman – Stigma, Three different types of identity, The discreditable, Moral career, Visibility, Personal Identity, Passing off as normal, Techniques of information control, Questions on documentary video ‘Hair Power’: Me and my Afro.

Notes on week 8 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. This session looked at stigma. Topics covered: Erving Goffman – Stigma, Social Identity, Types of Stigma, Managing Stigma, Treatment by Normals, Responses of the stigmatised, Interactions between normal and stigmatised, Sympathetic Others, Moral Career, Questions on the video ‘More Than Meets the Eye’.