SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

To be confirmed.

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Module coordinator

Dr H O B Wardle

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Module Staff

Dr Huon Wardle (HOBW)

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Module description

This module explores how Individuality, Community and Morality are configured anthropologically. How best to understand individuality, community and morality as distinct concepts, but also vis-a-vis to each other? We use project work as a means to actively refigure what these terms mean to us. We look at major strands in the history of social philosophy, sociology and social anthropology examining how individuality, community and morality are currently being reconfigured in contemporary patterns of social life. The module gives us an opportunity to rethink the task of anthropology as it currently presents itself; how best to comprehend the personal, social and cultural dimensions of the worlds we live in? How do our concepts of 'local' and 'global' currently fit in? What kinds of moral, rational and practical expectations and imperatives emerge? The course will draw on a wide range of ethnographic and theoretical work.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SA2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework - 50%, Written exam - 50%

Re-assessment

Coursework - 50%, Written exam - 50%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 lecture, 1 seminar.

Intended learning outcomes

  • use anthropological theory and ethnographic case studies to gain new insights into individuality, community and morality
  • work cooperatively on student-led project work toward giving a practical turn to the theoretical themes
  • adapt the history of anthropological ideas creatively toward new understandings of contemporary social experience
  • reconfigure and reapply learning to-date in anthropological theory and practice on the programme