SOC308 Community Analysis (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Sociology (SOCIO)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
The subject looks at community as a means of addressing social, environmental and economic problems in a globalising world which is seeing a strong social and political push for action to be taken by local communities. Starting from the perspectives of local professionals and active citizens, the subject applies sociological tools to community capacity in terms of social capital, interaction, organization, inequality, conflict and power relationships both within and beyond the community. We conclude by looking at the implications of globalisation and cultural change for local communities.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Distance | Wagga Wagga | Session 2 |
| Internal | Wagga Wagga |
| Distance | Wagga Wagga | Session 3 |
| Distance | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: SOC308
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Not for students who have successfully completed SOC303 3 or SOC-3084
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
Understand the structures and processes of communities, and the major factors determining community life;
Be able to sociologically analyse and research aspects of community life;
Be able to identify the roots of community problems and the contributions which elements of the social system make to them, and suggest ways of alleviating them;
Have acquired a sufficient intellectual basis to help them to work out programmes for improving quality of life in communities.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
Historical and theoretical background to community and local social analysis; this contribution to sociology and relations with other parts of the discipline.
The spatial dimension of social relationships; rural-urban differences; local-external relations and the non-spatial dimensions of community.
Community structures: power and inequality against demographic, institutional and historical backgrounds.
Community process: group interaction, cooperation and conflict; alliances and networks, analysis of power relations and their determinants.
The social construction of community, culture and structure.
Community, power relations and social change.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.