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SOCY317 The Sociology of Everyday Life

Unit Information
Additional Information

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2010
Intensive School(s)	None
Supervised Exam	There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites	12cp at 100 level in SOCY or any 24cp
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	SOCY217
Notes	offered in odd numbered years
Combined Units	None
Coordinator(s)	Eric Livingston (elivings@une.edu.au)
Unit Description	How people engage in and organize the activities of everyday life - activities such as washing dishes and solving jigsaw puzzles, playing soccer and driving-in-traffic, working as a secretary and conducting laboratory experiments - are fundamental issues in sociology and abiding concerns of ethnomethodological research. Through the investigation of such activities this unit invites students into a sociology of everyday life and opens for examination issues of skill, reasoning, embodied action, the social organization of space and time, and the production of social order.
Materials	No text required
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Title	Exam Length	Weight	Mode	No. Words
Project		40%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1-7
Take Home Exam		60%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-5 GA: 1-7

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

describe and analyse the world of practical action and reasoning as consisting of complex skills;
write descriptively and formulate research findings as analytic descriptions;
apply practical research techniques for learning about the world of everyday life;
engage in real-worldly studies;
find, develop and articulate research issues of his or her own interest in the sociology of everyday life.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline The unit presents a foundational approach to sociology and to the sociology of everyday life. It is taught in lectures, study notes and readings, practised in tutorial and online exercises, and assessed via worksheet assignments and the exam.
2	Communication Skills The unit develops skills for closely describing and analyzing complex phenomena of the ordinary society. It assessed in both assessment tasks.
3	Global Perspectives The fundamental phenomena of this unit are the details and organization of everyday life. This is assessed in both assessment tasks.
4	Information Literacy The unit develops abilities of finding, assessing, and using information from the ordinary society. These abilities are assessed in both assessment tasks.
5	Life-Long Learning The unit develops skills for understanding social life and one's own activities. It is assessed in both assessment tasks.
6	Problem Solving The unit develops skills of finding, formulating, and solving problems in the study of everyday ordinary activities. It is assessed in both assessment tasks.
7	Social Responsibility The unit involves and teaches a commitment to the observable looks of practical action and reasoning. It is assessed in both assessment tasks.
8	Team Work The unit involves the study of team work and collaborative action, fosters collaborative discussion, and relies on student assistance for the efficient running of the unit. Teamwork is an assessable component of the assessment tasks.