University of Roehampton (RU)

Notes on week 7 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. Topics covered: Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Definition of a situation, Discrepant role example, Example of front and back region, Why does a team need to keep secrets? Example of a team and audience, Stigma – Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, What is a stigma? Three different kinds of identity.

Notes on week 6 of the module Sociology and Everyday Life. Topics covered: Teams and Regional Behaviour, Erving Goffman's study on American college girls, Discrepant Roles, Different types of discrepant roles, Communication out of character, treatment of the absent, staging talk, team collusion, realigning actions, impression management.

Notes on week 5 of Sociology and Everyday Life module. In this session, the class were given an introduction to Erving Goffman and how his ideas can be applied to everyday life.

Notes to week 4 of Sociology and Everyday Life module. Topics covered: Key ideas of Symbolic Interactionism, Philosophical roots to Symbolic Interactionism, William James, Charles Cooley, William I. Thomas, George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.

Notes on week 3 of Sociology and Everyday Life module. In this session, the tutor goes through the presentation assessment for the module such as how the presentation should be structured and what students will be marked on. Students had to read up on chapter 8 of Susie Scott's book Making Sense of Everyday Life and answer questions on the chapter. The notes includes the answers to the questions. This session also looked at Daniel Miller's findings in his work Making Love in the Supermarkets.

Notes on week 2 of Sociology and Everyday Life SOC020C135 module. Topics discussed in this session: Why did everyday life sociology emerge? Roots of everyday life sociology, How do we study everyday life? Searching for rules, rule-breaking, The university ‘space’ – Understanding the university as a site of everyday life, Goffman's Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaption to Failure, The Sociological Imagination, cooling out in everyday life, why is cooling needed, strategies of cool...

Notes to the first session (week 1) of Sociology and Everyday Life (SOC020C135) module. The notes gives an overview of the topics that students will be studying in this particular module and it also covers the assessments (essay and presentation) that students have to complete. This module heavily focuses on the work of Erving Goffman. In this first session, students had to read an abstract and then answer questions about it.

Sociology degree seminar notes to the module Becoming a Sociologist. This was the last class of the module. The lecturer gave the class a recap of the assessment tasks that students had to complete to pass the module.

These are notes taken at a seminar class for the Sociology degree module Becoming a Sociologist. This seminar class looked at the differences between quantitative and qualitative methods. It covers the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative methods.

These are notes taken at a seminar class for the Sociology degree module Becoming a Sociologist. The topic for this seminar class was on conducting focus groups. It covers the role of the facilitator, who to invite to a focus group, where to hold a focus group, what to ask in a focus group, how to organise your questions, advantages and disadvantages and ethical issues.