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Unit of Study SOC20002 - Economy, Ecology, and Social Life: Local and Global Perspectives (2016)

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Unit description

Provides students with a broad understanding of economic activity as a product of complex interactive social forces and social relationships, through which human agents structure socio-economic conduct among social actors. Encourages students to adopt a critical and exploratory approach to understanding the historical, structural, and ecological contexts in which social actors produce, reproduce and change social life.

Unit content

Introduction:   Economy, Ecology & Social Life
Topic 1:          Key concepts and approaches to the “Economic”
Topic 2:          Key concepts in “Political Economy”
Topic 3:          Society & Markets: Values, Prices and Competition
Topic 4:          Economic Growth, Economic Crises & Ecology
Topic 5:          Economic Systems & Social Inequality: Class, Income and Wealth
Topic 6:          State, Economy & Social Policy
Topic 7:          Global Corporations—Local Trade & Risks
Topic 8:          Work, Consumption and Quality of Life
Topic 9:          The Environment & Sustainability: Limits to Growth?
Topic 10:        Community, Social Movements and Democracy
Conclusion:    The Future of Market Society.

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Location Domestic International
Online Session 1 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 engage in contemporary debates about the (global) economy and its social and ecological impacts
2 analyse the basic principles and concepts in economic sociology, economic anthropology, and political economy
3 analyse key developments and differences in human economies and their ecological contexts through time and space, including the historical genesis of a global world system
4 critically evaluate and develop reflective arguments about the impacts of the global economic system on local actors and communities.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. engage in contemporary debates about the (global) economy and its social and ecological impacts
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. analyse the basic principles and concepts in economic sociology, economic anthropology, and political economy
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. analyse key developments and differences in human economies and their ecological contexts through time and space, including the historical genesis of a global world system
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. critically evaluate and develop reflective arguments about the impacts of the global economic system on local actors and communities.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:

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