Course

Technologies, Culture, Society - ARTS2877

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Social Sciences

Course Outline: School of Social Sciences

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1

Equivalent: SOCA2104

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Globalisation Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Covers sociological and anthropological approaches to the changing relationship between technology, culture, economy and society. Topics may include: ‘social shaping’ and other approaches to technologies and technological innovation – whether early devices, means of communication or biotechnology; reproductive technologies; the shifting role of ‘the economy’ – such as households and social networks of production and consumption; the shifting boundaries between work and leisure; shifting understandings of ‘society’ that have been put forward to account for these changes – industrial society, post-industrial society, consumer society/culture, information society…; the rise of ‘cultural economy’ and‘cultural industries’ as themes within recent debates. [OMIT: Theorists covered may include Polanyi, Veblen, Bell, Castells.]

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