Contemporary Society - Fields and Case Studies (SOC1020)

2015

Matthias Zick Varul

m.z.varul@ex.ac.uk

01382 26 3283

room AMO 323

OutlineThis course introduces the subject matter of sociology by looking at four specific areas (family, religion/secularisation, health & illness, spatial mobilities). In the manner of case studies we will the transitions from modernity into the present. We will ask to what extent these transitions and transformations are reflected there, to what extent traditional and modernist structures and norms are resilient, and to what extent the dynamics of these fields themselves contribute to the more general changes taking place. Also, the four sections may serve as problematising mini-introductions to the respective specialist sociologies.

Tutorials and Lectures

The module lasts for one semester covering 11 lectures. There will be 5 tutorials, the organisation and timing of which will be arranged at the beginning of the module. Attendance at tutorials is mandatory

Tutorial 1: Introduction

Tutorial 2: Family

Tutorial 3: Religion

Tutorial 4: Health and Medicine

Tutorial 5: Spatial Mobility

In order to enable tutorials to meet your needs you will, at the end of each lecture, be required to name one thing (if anything) you’ve learned and one thing that you found hard to understand on an anonymous sheet of paper. You can also use this to voice any concerns about the course if you do not feel comfortable in doing it directly.

For the tutorials everyone should prepare at least one question or comment to be discussed in the tutorial group.

Assignments

You are required to write one formative (i.e. practice) essay of 2,000 words. The deadline for this essay is 26th February 2015, 2pm through e-BART.

Suggested essay questions are listed at the end of this reading list. You are encouraged to formulate your own essay question.

Assessment

The course is assessed by examination only. In the examination, to be held in May/June, students will be required to answer two questions in two hours.

Penalties

Penalties apply as outlined in the College Undergraduate Handbook. Particular attention is drawn to the following:

Plagiarism

Every instance of plagiarism will be reported and the penalties are draconic.

Penalties for Late or Non-submission of Non-assessed work:

Penalties for late or non-submission of required coursework that does not form part of final module assessment:

1. Work submitted up to two weeks late: a maximum mark of 40 is recorded, and the marker is under no obligation to provide any other feedback.

2. Work submitted more than two weeks late: a mark of 0 is recorded.

Absence from Tutorials:

Missing a tutorial without a tutor's (preferably prior) permission is a disciplinary offence. A continuing failure to attend as required may lead to your exclusion from examinations (see student handbook).

Section 1: The family and beyond

Week 1-2: Traditional forms, the modern nuclear family and symptoms of dissolution

from traditional to modern

Mitterauer, Michael/Sieder, Reinhard (1982): The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present, Oxford: Blackwell.

Ariès, Philippe (1962): Centuries of Childhood,London:JonathanCape, part three, chapter two (From the Medieval Family to the Modern Family)

Goldthorpe, John Ernest (1987): Family Life in Western Societies: A Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain and North America,Cambridge:CambridgeUniversity Press

Harries, C. C. (1983): The Family in Industrial Society,London: George Allen & Unwin

McShane, Liz/Pinkerton, John (1986): ' "The Family" in Northern Ireland', in: Studies - An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol.75, no.298, pp.167-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30090730

Parsons, Anne (1961): 'Paternal and Maternal Authority in the Neapolitan Family', in: A. Parsons: Belief, Magic, and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropology, New York: Free Press, pp.67-97

http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/575954/mod_resource/content/1/Anne%20Parsons%20Paternal%20and%20Maternal%20Authority%20in%20Neapolitan%20Family.pdf

Prandy, Kenneth/Bottero, Wendy (2000): ‘Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britainand Irelandin the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Sociology, Vol.34, No.2, pp.265 - 281

Smith, Daniel Scott (1993): ‘The Curious History of Theorizing about the History of the Western Nuclear Family’, in: Social Science History, Vol.17, No.3, pp.325-353Cherlin, Andrew (1983): ‘Changing Family and Household: Contemporary Lessons from Historical Research’ in: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol.9, pp.51-66.

the nuclear family

Parsons, Talcott (1956): ‘The American Family: Its Relations to Personality and to the Social Structure’, in: Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales (eds.): Family. Socialization and Interaction Processes, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp.3-33

Breines, Winifred (1986): ‘Alone in the 1950s: Anne Parsons and the Feminine Mystique’, in: Theory and Society, Vol.15, pp.805-43

Charles, N./Kerr, M. (1988): Women, Food and Families,Manchester:ManchesterUniversity Press.

Coser, Rose Laub (1975): Complexity of roles as a Seedbed of Individual Autonomy, in: Lewis A. Coser (ed.): The Idea of Social Structure. Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton,New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, pp.237-263

De Vault, Marjorie L. (1991): Feeding the Family,Chicago:University ofChicago Press.

Friedan, Betty (1963): The Feminine Mystique,London: Penguin.May, Vanessa (2008): ‘On Being a “Good” Mother: The Moral Presentation of Self in Written Life’, in:Sociology, Vol.42, NO.3, pp.470-86

Parsons, Talcott (1954): ‘The Incest Taboo in Relation to Social Structure and the Socialization of the Child’, in: British Journal of Sociology, Vol.5, No.2, pp.101-117.

Turner, Christopher (1969): Family and Kinship in Modern Britain, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (chapter 2: The British kinship system)

towards the current situation (in general)

Bawin-Legros, Bernadette (2001): ‘Families in Europe: A Private and Political Stake – Intimacy and Solidarity’, in: Current Sociology, Vol.49, No.5, pp.49-65.

Beck, Ulrich/Beck-Gernsheim, E. (1995): The Normal Chaos of Love,Cambridge: Polity Press.

Giddens, Anthony (1992): The Transformation of Intimacy, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Gittins, Diana (1985): The Family in Question. Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies,Basingstoke: Macmillan, chapters 3 and 8.

McRae, Susan (1999): ‘Introduction: Family and Household Change in Britain’, in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s,Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1-33.

McRae, Susan (1989): Flexible Working Time and Family Life. A Review of Changes,London: Policy Studies Institute

Vogler, Carolyn, (2006): ‘Intimate Relationships and Changing Patterns of Money Management at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century’, in British Journal of Sociology, Vol.57, No.3, pp.455-82.

Wajcman, Judy, et al. (2008): ‘Families without Borders: Mobile Phones, Connectedness and Work-Home Divisions’, in: Sociology, Vol.42, No.4, pp.635-52

Weston, K. (1991): Families We Choose,New York:ColumbiaUniversity Press

Williams, Stephen (2008): ‘What Is Fatherhood? Searching for the Reflexive Father’, in: Sociology, Vol.42, No.3, pp.487-502

Week 3: New forms, new norms and the persistence of some old values

General overview

Kuronen, Marjo (ed.): Research on Families and Family Policies in Europe: State of the Art - Final Report, Commission of the European Communities - Research Directorate-General, 2010 (available on ELE or via

single-parent families:

Allen, Isabel/Bourke Dowling, Shirley (1999): ‘Teenage Mothers: Decisions and Outcomes’ in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s,Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.334-353.

Berthoud, Richard/McKay, Stephen/Rowlingson, Karen (1999): ‘Becoming a Single Mother’ in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s,Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.354-373

Crow, Graham/Hardey, Michael (1999): ‘Diversity and Ambiguity among Lone-parent Households in Modern Britain’ in: Graham Allen (Ed.): The Sociology of the Family,Oxford: Blackwell, pp.232-246

Millar, Jane (1999): ‘State, Family and Personal Responsibility: The Changing Balance for Lone Mothers in the United Kingdom’, in: Graham Allen (Ed.): The Sociology of the Family,Oxford: Blackwell, pp.247-261.

Rowthorn, Robert/Webster, David (2008): 'Male worklessness and the rise of lone parenthood in Great Britain', Regions, Economy and Society, Vol.1, No.1, pp.69-88.

post-divorce families

Kiernan, Kathleen/Mueller, Ganka (1998) 'The Divorced and Who Divorces?' Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion / LSE CASE Paper 7 20f.

Smart, Carol (1999): ‘The “New” Parenthood: Fathers and Mothers after Divorce’ in: Elizabeth B. Silva, Carol Smart (Eds.): The New Family? London: SAGE, pp.100-114.

Smart, Carol (2006): ‘Children’s Narratives of Post-divorce Family Life: From Individual Experience to an Ethical Disposition’, in: Sociological Review, Vol.54, No.1, pp.155-70.

alternative family forms

McRae, Susan (1999): ‘Cohabitation or Marriage? – Cohabitation’ in: Susan McRae (Ed.): Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s,Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.172-190.

Weeks, Jeffrey/Heaphy, Brian/Donovan, Catherine (1999): ‘Partners by Choice: Equality, Power and Commitment in Non-heterosexual Relationships’ in: Graham Allen (Ed.): The Sociology of the Family,Oxford: Blackwell, pp.111-128.

Roseneil, Sasha/Budgeon, Shelley (2004): ‘Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond “the Family”: Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century’, in: Current Sociology, Vol.52, No.2, pp.135-59

Heath, Sue (2004): ‘Peer-Shared Households, Quasi-Communes and Neo-Tribes’, in: Current Sociology, Vol.52, No.2, pp.161-79

persistent patterns, continuing solidarities

Allison, James/Curtis, Penny (2010): 'Family Displays and Personal Lives', in: Sociology, Vol.44, No.6, pp.1163-80

Beagan, Brenda, et al. (2008): ‘ “It’s Just Easier for Me to Do It”: Rationalizing the Family Division of Foodwork’, in: Sociology, Vol.42, No.4, pp.653-71

Bianchi, Suzanne M. (2000): 'Maternal Employment and Time with Children: Dramatic Change or Surprising Continuity?', in: Demography, Vol.37, No.4, pp.401-414

Bittman, Michael et al. (2004): 'Appliances and Their Impact: The Ownership of Domestic Technology and Time Spent on Household Work', in: British Journal of Sociology, Vol.55, No.3, pp.401-23 (see also Gershuny's reply in the same issue of BJS)

Bornat, Joanna/Dimmock, Brian/Jones, David/Peace, Sheila (1999): ‘Generational Ties in the “New” Family: Changing Contexts for Traditional Obligations’, in: Elizabeth B. Silva, Carol Smart (Eds.): The New Family? London: SAGE, pp.115-28.

Brannen, Julia (2006): ‘Cultures of Intergenerational Transmission in Four-Generation Families’, in: Sociological Review, Vol.54, No.1, pp.133-54.

Coward, Rosalind (1993): Our Treacherous Hearts. Why Women Let Men Get Their Way, London/Boston: Faber and Faber

Davies, Hayley (2011): 'Sharing Surnames: Children, Family and Kinship', in: Sociology, Vol.45, No.4, pp.554-69

Finch, Janet (2007): ‘Displaying Families’, in: Sociology, Vol.41, No.1, pp.65-81

Gittins, D. (1993): The Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies,Basingstoke: Macmillan

Jennings, Laura/Brace-Govan, Jan (2014): 'Maternal Visibility at the Commodity Frontier: Weaving Love into Birthday Party Consumption', in: Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol.12, No.1, pp.88-112 http://joc.sagepub.com/content/14/1/88.abstract.html?etoc

Kan, Man Yee (2008): 'Does Gender Trump Money? Housework hours of husband and wives in Britain', in: Work, Employment & Society, Vol.22, pp.45-66

Kaufmann, Jean-Claude (1998): Dirty Linen: Couples and Their Laundry, London: Middlesex University Press [library 306.7 KAU]

Perrier, Maud (2013): 'Middle-class Mothers' Moralities and "Concerted Cultivation": Class Others, Ambivalence and Excess', in: Sociology, Vol.47, No.4, pp.655-70

Miller, Tina (2011): ‘Falling back into Gender? Men’s Narratives and Practices around First-time Fatherhood’, in: Sociology, Vol.45, No.5, pp.1094-1109

Scott, Jacqueline (1997): ‘Changing Households in Britain: Do Families Still Matter?’ in: Sociological Review, Vol.45, No.4, pp.591-620.

Smart, Carol (2011): 'Families, Secrets and Memories', in: Sociology, Vol.45, No.4, pp.539-53

Stacey, Judith (2004): ‘Cruising to Familyland: Gay Hypergamy and Rainbow Kinship’, in: Current Sociology, Vol.52, No.2, pp.181-97

Szabo, Michelle (2013): 'Foodwork or Foodplay? Men's Domestic Cooking, Privilege and Leisure', in: Sociology, Vol.47, No.4, pp.623-38

Section 2: Religion after secularisation

Week 4: Pluralism and the decline of official church religion and the commodification of religion

Secularisation and after

Berger, Peter L. (1967): The Sacred Canopy. Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion,New York: Anchor Books.

Bruce, Steve (2002): God Is Dead. Secularization in the West,Oxford: Blackwell

Catto, Rebecca/Eccles, Janet (2013): '(Dis)Believing and Belonging: Investigating the Narratives of Young British Atheists', in Temenos Vol.49, No.1, pp.37-63

Davie, Grace (2000): ‘Religion in Modern Britain: Changing Sociological Assumptions’ in: Sociology, Vol.34, No.1, pp.113-128.

Davie, Grace (2000): Religion in Modern Europe. A Memory Mutates, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Dobbelaere, Karel (1993): ‘Church Involvement and Secularization: Making Sense of the European Case’ in: Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford, Karel Dobbelaere (1993):Secularization, Rationalization and Sectarianism, pp.19-36

Halman, Loek/Draulans, Veerle (2006): ‘How Secular is Europe?’, British Journal of Sociology, Vol.57, No.2, pp.263-88

Luckmann Thomas (1967): The Invisible Religion. The Problem of Religion in Modern Society,New York: Macmillan, chapters IV-VI

Martin, David (1991): 'The Secularization Issue: Prospect and Retrospect'. In British Journal of Sociology, Vol.42, No.3, pp.465-74

Pollack, Detlef/Muller, Olaf/Pickel, Gert (eds) (2012): The Social Significance of Religion in the Enlarged Europe: Secularization, Individualization and Pluralization, Farnham: Ashgate. [library 306.6094 POL]

Stark, Rodney (2001): 'Efforts to Christianize Europe, 400-2000'. In: Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol.16, pp.105-123.

Turner, Bryan S. (2008): ‘Cosmopolitan Virtue: On Religion in a Global Age’, in: European Journal of Social Theory, Vol.4, No.2, pp131-52.

from pluralism to consumerism

Aldred, Lisa (2002): ‘ “Money Is Just Spiritual Energy”: Incorporating the New Age’, in: Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.35, No.4, pp.61-74

Beckford, James A. (1992): 'Religion, Modernity, Post-modernity'. In: Bryan Wilson (ed.): Religion: Contemporary Issues,London: Bellew, pp.11-23.

Elzey, Wayne(1978): ‘Jesus the Salesman: A Reassessment of The Man Nobody Knows’, in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol.46, No.2, pp.151-77

Karner, Christian/Aldridge, Alan (2004): ‘Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World’, in: International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol.18, No.1, pp.5-32

O’Guinn, Thomas/Belk, Russell W. (1989): ‘Heaven on Earth: Consumption at Heritage Village, USA’. In: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol.16, No.2, pp.227-38.

Percy, Martyn (2000): 'The Church in the Market Place: Advertising and Religion in a Secular Age'. In: Journal of Contemporary Religion. Vol.15, pp.97-119

Peck, Janice (1993): 'Selling Goods and Selling God: Advertising, Televangelism and the Commodity Form'. In: Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol.17, No.1, pp.5-24

Montemaggi, Francesca (2013): 'Shopping for a Church: Choice and Commitment', in: F. Gauthier/T. Martikainen (eds): Religion in Consumer Society https://www.academia.edu/1775897/_2013_Shopping_for_a_Church._Choice_and_commitment

Smith, Chris/ Lundquist Denton, Melinda (2005): Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Life of American Teenagers,Oxford:OxfordUniversity Press.

Varul, Matthias Z. (2008): ‘After Heroism: Religion Under Consumer Culture’, in: Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, Vol.19, No.2, pp.237-55.

Warner, Rob (2006): 'Pluralism and Voluntarism in the English Religious Economy' Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.389–404

Week 5: Invisible religion?

Invisible Religion

Bailey, Edward (1990): ‘The Implicit Religion of Contemporary Society: Some Studies and Reflections’, in: Social Compass, Vol.37, No.4, pp,483-97

Belk, Russell W./Wallendorf, Melanie/Sherry, John F. (1989): ‘The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey’, in: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol.16, No.1, pp1-38.

Chichester, David (1996): ‘The Churchof Baseball, the Fetish of Coca Cola, and the Potlatch of Rock ’n’ Roll: Theoretical Models for the Study of Religion in American Popular Culture’, in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol.64, No.4, pp.743-65

Hirschman, Elizabeth C. (1990): ‘Secular Immortality and the American Ideology of Affluence’, in: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol.17, No.1, pp.31-42

Holbrook, Morris B. (2001): 'The Millennial Consumer in the Texts of Our Times: Evangelizing', in: Journal of Macromarketing, Vol.21, No.2, pp.181-196

Jindra, Michael (1994): 'Star Trek Fandom as a Religious Phenomenon', in: Sociology of Religion, Vol.55, No.1, pp.27-51 http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/1/27.abstract

King, Christine (1993): ‘His Truth Goes Marching On: Elvis Presley and the Pilgrimage to Graceland’ in: Ian Reader, Tony Walter (Eds.): Pilgrimage in Popular Culture,Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.92-104.

Letcher, Andy (2001): 'The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture', in: Folklore, Vol.112, No.2, pp.147-61

Luckmann, Thomas (1967): The Invisible Religion. The Problem of Religion in Modern Society, New York: Macmillan, chapter VII (Modern Religious Themes)

Ostling, Michael (2003): ‘Harry Potter and the Disenchantment of the World.’ In: Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol.18, No.1, pp.3-23.

Ritzer, George (2005): Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption, Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge

Possamaï, Adam (2001): 'Cultural Consumption of History and Popular Culture in Alternative Spiritualities', in Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol.2, No.2, pp.197-218

Varul, Matthias Z. (2011): ‘The Healthy Body as New Religious Territory’, in: Catherine Brace (ed.): Emerging Geographies of Belief, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars

Zepp Jr., Ira G. (1997): The New Religious Image of America. The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center, Niwot: University Press of Colorado

New Religious Movements

Beckford, James A./Levasseur, Martine (1986): ‘New Religious Movements in Western Europe’ in: James A. Beckford (Ed.): New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, London: SAGE, pp.29-54.

Bowman, Marion(1993): ‘Drawn to Glastonbury’ in: Ian Reader, Tony Walter (Eds.): Pilgrimage in Popular Culture, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.29-62.

Bruce, Steve (1996): Religion in the Modern World. From Cathedrals to Cults,Oxford: Oxford University Press, chapters 7 (The New Religions of the 1970s) and 8 (The New Age)

Palmer, Susan J. (1995): ‘The Raëlian Movement International’ in: Robert Towler (Ed.): New Religions and the New Europe, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, pp.194-210.

Redden, Guy (2002): ‘The New Agents: Personal Transfiguration and Radical Privatization in New Age Self-help’, in: Journal of Consumer Culture, Vol.2, No.1, pp.33-52.

Taira, Teemu (2012): 'Atheist Spirituality: A Follow On from New Atheism?', in: Tore Ahlbäck (ed.) Post-Secular Religious Practices. Turku: Donner institute for Religious and Cultural History, 388-404

Section 3: Health and Illness

Week 6-7: Transformation of the sick role – from cure to care

the sick role

Arluke, Arnold(1988): ‘The Sick-Role Concept’, in: D. S. Gochman (ed.) Health Behavior: Emerging Research Perspectives,New York: Plenum Press, pp. 169-80.

Burnham, John C. (2013): 'Why Sociologists Abandoned the Sick Role Concept', in: History of the Human Sciences, (online first version)

Freidson, Eliot (1970): Profession of Medicine,New York: Harper and Row.

Gerhardt, Uta (1987): ‘Parsons, Role Theory, and Health Interaction’, in G. Scambler (ed.): Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology,London: Tavistock, pp.110-33

Parsons, Talcott (1951): The Social System; London: Routledge chapter X (Social Structure and Dynamic Process: The Case of Modern Medical Practice)

Williams, Simon J. (2005): 'Parsons Revisited: From the Sick Role to…?', in: Health, Vol.9, no.2, pp.123–144, http://hea.sagepub.com/content/9/2/123.full.pdf+html

consumerism in the medical encounter?

Bayles, Michael D. (1981): ‘Physicians as Body Mechanics.’ In: Arthur L. Caplan/H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr./James J. McCartney (eds): Concepts of Health and Disease. Interdisciplinary Perspectives,Reading,MA: Addison-Wesley, pp.167-78

Hardey, Michael (1999): ‘Doctor in the House: The Internet as a Source of Lay Health Knowledge and the Challenge to Expertise’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.21, No.6, pp.820-35.

Henwood, Flis/Wyatt, Sally/Hart, Angie/Smith, Julie (2003): ' "Ignorance is Bliss Sometimes": Constraints on the Emergence of the "Informed Patient" in the Changing Landscapes of Health Information', in: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.25, No.6, pp.589-607

Hughes, David (1991): ‘The Reorganisation of the National Health Service: The Rhetoric and Reality of the Internal Market’, in: Modern Law Review, Vol.54, No.1, pp.88-103.

Lupton, Deborah (1997): ‘Consumerism, Reflexivity and the Medical Encounter’, in: Theory Culture & Society Vol.45, No.3, pp.373-81

MacDonals, Ruth et al. (2007): 'Governing the Ethical Consumer: Identity, Choice and the Primary Care Medical Encounter', in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.29, No.3, pp.430-56

Shilling, Chris (2002): ‘Culture, the “Sick Role” and the Consumption of Health’, in: British Journal of Sociology, Vol.53, No.4, pp.621-38

Young, J. T. (2004): ‘Illness Behaviour: A Selective Review and Synthesis’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.26, No.1, pp.1-31.

chronic illness

Bury, Michael (1991): ‘The Sociology of Chronic Illness: A Review of Research and Prospects’. In: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.13, pp.451-68

Charmaz Kathy (2000): ‘Experiencing Chronic Illness’. In: G.L. Albrecht, R. Fitzpatrick, S.C. Scrimshaw (eds): Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, London: SAGE, pp.277-92

Crossley, Michele (1998): ‘“Sick Role” or “Empowerment”? The Ambiguities of Life with an HIV Positive Diagnosis’, in: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.20, No.4, pp.507-31

Gregory, Susan (2005): ‘Living with Chronic Illness in the Family Setting’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.27, No.3, pp.372-92.

Kelleher, David (1994): ‘Self-help Groups and their Relationship to Medicine’, in: Jonathan Gabe, David Kelleher, Gareth Williams (eds.): Challenging Medicine,London: Routledge, pp.104-117

Kelly, Michael P./Field, David (1996): ‘Medical Sociology, Chronic Illness and the Body’, in: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol.18, No.2, pp.241-57

Radley, Alan (1994): Making Sense of Illness: The Social Psychology of Health and Disease, London: SAGE

Strauss, Anselm L./Glaser, Barney G. (1975): Chronic Illness and the Quality of Life,Saint Louis: Mosby.

Williams, Simon, J. (2000): ‘Chronic Illness as Biographical Disruption or Biographical Disruption as Chronic Illness? Reflections on a Core Concept’, in: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.22, No.1, pp.40-67

Varul, Matthias Z. (2010) ‘Talcott Parsons, the Sick Role and Chronic Illness’, in: Body & Society, Vol.16, No.2, pp.72-94.

Week 8: Focus on population and lifestyle: new public health

health promotion/healthism/medicalisation

Armstrong, David (1993): ‘Public Health Spaces and the Fabrication of Identity’. In: Sociology, Vol.27, pp.393-410

Bunton, Robin/Burrows, Roger (1995): ‘Consumption and Health in the „Epidemiological” Clinic of Later Modern Medicine.’ In: Robin Bunton/Sarah Nettleton/Roger Burrows (eds): The Sociology of Health Promotion. Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk,London: Routledge, pp.206-22

Conrad, Peter (1992): ‘Medicalization and Social Control’, in: Annual Review of Sociology, Vol.18, pp. 209-32.

Crawford, Robert (2000): ‘The Ritual of Health Promotion’, in: Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, and Michael Calnan (eds.): Health, Medicine and Society – Key Theories and Future Developments, London: Routledge pp.219-35

Crawford, Robert (1980): ‘Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life’. In: International Journal of Health Services, Vol.10, pp.365-88

Davison, Charlie/Davey Smith, George/Frankel, Stephen (1991): ‘Lay Epidemiology and the Prevention Paradox: the Implications of Coronary

Candidacy for Health Education’. In: Sociology of Health & Illness, Vol.13, pp.1-19

de Swaan, Abram (1990): The Management of Normality. Critical Essays in Health and Welfare, London/NewYork: Routledge, chapter 3 (Expansion and Limitation of the Medical Regime)

Glassner, Barry (1990): ‘Fit for Postmodern Selfhood’. In: H. S. Becker/M. McCall (eds): Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies, Chicago:University ofChicago Press, pp.215-43

Greco, Monica (1993): ‘Psychosomatic Subjects and the “Duty to Be Well”’, in: Economy & Society, Vol.22, pp.357-72.

Knowles, John H. (1981): ‘The Responsibility of the Individual’. In: P. Conrad, R. Kern (eds): The Sociology of Health and Illness. Critical Perspectives,New York:St. Martin’s, pp.452-68

Lupton Deborah (1995): The Imperative of Health. Public Health and the Regulated Body,London: SAGE

Monaghan, Lee F./Hollands, Robert/Pritchard, Gary(2010): ‘Obesity Epidemic Entrepreneurs: Types, Practices and Interests’, in: Body & Society, Vol.10, No.2, pp.37-71.

Nettleton, Sarah (1997): ‘Governing the Risky Self. How to Become Healthy, Wealthy and Wise’. In: A. Peterson/R. Bunton (eds): Foucault, Health and Medicine,London: Routledge, pp.207-22

Pfaffenberger, R.S. et al. (2001): ‘A History of Physical Activity, Cardivascular Health and Longevity: the Scientific Contributions of Jeremy N Morris DSc, DPH, FRCP’ in:International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol.30, pp.1184-92

Health and Inequality

Blaxter, Mildred (1997): ‘Whose Fault Is It? People’s Own Conceptions of the Reasons for Health Inequalities’ in: Social Science & Medicine, Vol.44, No.6, pp.747-56.

Davey Smith, George (1996): ‘Income Inequality and Mortality: Why Are They Related?’ In: British Journal of Medicine, Vol.312, pp.987-8

Davey Smith, George/Hart, Carole/Blane, David/Gillis, Charles/Hawthorne, Victor (1996): ‘Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Mortality: Prospective Observational Study’. In: British Medical Journal, Vol.314, pp.547-52.

Moore, Sarah E. H. (2010): ‘Is the Healthy Body Gendered? Toward a Feminist Critique of the New Paradigm of Health’ in: Body & Society, Vol.16, No.2, pp.95-118.

Section 4: Spatial Mobility

Week 9: Migration

trends and developments

Peach, Ceri (1997): ‘Postwar Migration to Europe: Reflux, Influx, Refuge’ in Social Science Quarterly, Vol.78, pp.269-283

Castles, Stephen/Miller, Mark J. (1998): The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World,Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Lash, Scott/Urry, John (1994): Economies of Signs and Space,London: SAGE, chapter 7: ‘Mobile Subjects: Migration in Comparative Perspective’

Castles, Stephen (2003): ‘Towards a Sociology of Forced Migration and Social Transformation’ in: Sociology, Vol.37, No.1, pp.13-34.

Wood, William (2001): ‘Ecomigration: Linkages between Environmental Change and Migration’, in: Aristide Zolberg, Peter M. Benda (Eds.): Global Migrants, Global Refugees. Problems and Solutions,New York: Berghahn, pp.42-61.

Verstrate, Ginette (2003): ‘Technological Frontiers and the Politics of Mobility in the European Union’. Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castañeda, Anne-Marie Fortier, Mimi Sheller (Eds.): Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration,Oxford: Berg, pp.225-249.

Shamir, Ronen (2005): ‘Without Borders? Notes on Globalization as a Mobility Regime’, in: Sociological Theory, Vol.23, No.2, pp.197-217

transnational life worlds and hybridity

Busteed, M. A./Hodgson, R. I.(1996): ‘Irish Migrant Responses to Urban Life in Early Nineteenth Century Manchester’, in: Geographical Journal, Vol.162, No.2, pp.139-153.

Çağlar, Ayşe (1997): ‘Hyphenated Identities and the Limits of “Culture”’, in: Tariq Modood/Pnina Werbner (eds): The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe,London: Zed Books, pp.169-85.

Cohen, Robin (1997): Global Diasporas. An Introduction,London: UCL Press (chapter six: Cultural Diasporas: The Caribbean Case)

Harbottle, Lynn(1996): ‘Bastard Chicken or ghormeh-sabzi? Iranian Women Guarding the Health of the Migrant Family.’ In: Stephen Edgell/Kevin Hetherington/Alan Woode (eds): Consumption Matters,Oxford: Blackwell, pp.204-26

Law, Lisa (2003): ‘Transnational Cyberpublics: New Political Spaces for Labour Migrants in Asia’ in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.26, No.2, pp.234-252.

McLoughlin, Seán (2005): ‘Mosques and the Public Space: Conflict and Cooperation in Bradford’, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.31, No.6, pp.1045-66.

Nederven Pieterse, Jan (2001): ‘Hybridity, So What? The Ambiguity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition’, in: Theory, Culture & Society, Vol.18, No.2-3, pp.219-45, p. 219

Pels, Trees (2000): ‘Muslim Families from Moroccoin the Netherlands: Gender Dynamics and Father’s Roles in a Context of Change’, in: Current Sociology, Vol.48, No.4, pp.75-93

Phizacklea, Annie (2000): ‘Economic Ethnoscapes. Men, Women and Business.’ in: Sallie Westwood, Annie Phizacklea (Eds.): Trans-nationalism and the Politics of Belonging,London: Routledge, pp.146-161.

Phizacklea, Annie (2000): ‘The Politics of Belonging. Sex Work, Domestic Work: Transnational Household Strategies’ in: Sallie Westwood, Annie Phizacklea (Eds.): Trans-nationalism and the Politics of Belonging,London: Routledge, pp.120-145

Salih, Ruba (2002): ‘Shifting Meanings of “Home”. Consumption and Identity in Moroccan Women’s Transnational Practices between Italy and Morocco’ in: Koser, Khalid/Al-Ali, Nadje (Eds.) (2002): New Approaches to Migration? Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home, London: Routledge, pp.51-67.

Werbner, Pnina (2005): ‘The Translocation of Culture: “Community Cohesion” and the Force of Multiculturalism in History’, in: Sociological Review, Vol.53, No.4, pp.745-68.

Waldinger, Roger/Fitzgerald, David (2004): ‘Transnationalism in Question’ in: American Journal of Sociology, Vol.109, No.5, pp.1177-1195

reactions: rejection and acceptance

Barker, Martin (1981): The New Racism: Conservatives and the Ideology of the Tribe,London: Junction Books

Gilroy, Paul (2004): After Empire: Melancholia or Convival Culture?London: Routledge.

Lesińska, Magdalena (2014): ‘The European Backlash against Immigration and Multiculturalism’, in: Sociology, vol.50, No.1, pp.37-50

Koopmans, Ruud/Statham, Paul (1999): ‘Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the collective Claims Making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britainand Germany’, in: American Journal of Sociology, Vol.105, No.3, pp.652-96.

Kyriakides, Christoper/Virdee, Satnam/Modood, Tariq (2009): 'Racism, Muslims and the National Imagination', in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 35, No.2, pp.289-308 http://www.academia.edu/2993805/Racism_Muslims_and_the_National_Imagination

Lewis, Philip (1997): ‘Arenas of Ethnic Negotiation: Cooperation and Conflict in Bradford’, in: Tariq Modood/Pnina Werbner (eds.): The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe: Racism, Identity and Community,London: Zed Books, pp.126-46

Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (2000): ‘The Irish in Britain: The Invisibility of Ethnicity and Anti-Irish Racism’, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.26, No.1: pp.137-47.

Modood, Tariq (2005): Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity, and Muslims in Britain.Minneapolis:University ofMinnesota Press.

Panikos, Panayi (2004): ‘The Evolution of Multiculturalism in Britainand Germany: An Historical Survey’, in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol.25, No.5&6, pp.466-80

Shamir, Ronen (2005): 'Without Borders? Notes on Globalization as a Mobility Regime', in: Sociological Theory, Vol.23, pp.197-217 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0735-2751.2005.00250.x/pdf

Tyler, Katharine (2004): ‘Reflexivity, Tradition and Racism in a FormerMiningTown’, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.27, No.2, pp.290-309.

Week 10: Tourism

how it came about

Harp, Stephen L. (2001): ‘Travel and Tourism.’ In: Peter N. Stearns (ed.): Encyclopædia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000, Volume 5, pp.229-45

Cross,Gary (1990): Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s,London: Routledge.

Löfgren, Orvar (1994): ‘Learning to Be a Tourist’, in: Ethnologia Scandinavica, Vol.24, pp.102-25

the tourist gaze and performance

Cohen, Erik (1996) [1979]: ‘A Phenomenology of Tourist Experiences’, in: Yiorgos Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi, and Andrew Yiannakis (eds): The Sociology of Tourism: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations,London: Routledge, pp.90-111.

Craik, Jennifer (1997): ‘The Culture of Tourism’ in: Chris Rojek/John Urry (Eds.): Touring Cultures. Transformations of Travel and Theory,London/New York: Routledge, pp.113-136.

Crick, Malcolm (1996) [1989]: ‘Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Savings and Servility’, in: Yiorgos Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi, and Andrew Yiannakis (eds): The Sociology of Tourism: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations,London: Routledge, pp.15-50.

Karch, Cecilia A./Dann, G. H. S. (1996) [1981]: ‘Close Encounters of the Third World’, in: Yiorgos Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi, and Andrew Yiannakis (eds): The Sociology of Tourism: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations,London: Routledge, pp.173-89.

MacCannell, Dean (1992): ‘Cannibalism Today’, in: Dean MacCannell: Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers, London: Routledge, pp.17-73.

MacCannell, Dean (1976) The Tourist. A New Theory of the Leisure Class,New York: Schocken.

Prideaux, Bruce (2002): ‘The Cybertourist’, in: Graham M. S. Dann (Ed.): The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World,Wallingford: CABI, pp.317-336.

Rojek, Chris/Urry, John (1997): 'Transformations of Travel and Theory'. In: Chris Rojek/John Urry (Eds.): Touring Cultures. Transformations of Travel and Theory,London/New York: Routledge, pp.1-19

Urry, John (1990): ‘The “Consumption” of Tourism’. In: Sociology, Vol.24, No.1, pp.23-35.

Urry, John (2002): The Tourist Gaze,London: SAGE

Welk, Peter (2004): ‘The Beaten Track: Anti-Tourism as an Element of Backpacker Identity Construction’ in: Greg Richards, Julie Wilson (Eds.): The Global Nomad. Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice, Clevedon: Channel View, pp.77-91.

migrants and tourists – encounters and transformations

(Salih’s text would fit in here as well)

Rath, Jan (2002): ‘Immigrants and the Tourist Industry: The Commodification of Cultural Resources’, Paper prepared for the XVth World Congress of Sociology, July 7th-13th in Brisbane

Stephenson, Marcus L. (2002): ‘Travelling to the Ancestral Homelands: The Aspirations and Experiences of a UK Caribbean Community’, in: Current Issues in Tourism, Vol.5, No.5, pp.378-425

Williams, Allan M./Hall, C. Michael (2000): ‘Tourism and Migration: New Relationships Between Production and Consumption’, in: Tourism Geographies, Vol.2, No.1, pp.5-27.

tourism as migration

O’Reilly, Karen (2003): ‘When Is a Tourist? The Articulation of Tourism and Migration in Spain’s Costa del Sol’, in: Tourist Studies, Vol.3, No.3, pp.301-17.

Oliver, Caroline/O’Reilly, Karen (2010): ‘A Bourdieusian Analysis of Class and Migration: Habitus and the Individualizing Process’, in: Sociology, Vol.44, No.1, pp.49-66.

Williams, Allan M./King, Russell/Warnes, Anthony/Patterson, Guy (2000): ‘Tourism and International Retirement Migration: New Forms of an Old

Relationship in Southern Europe’, in: Tourism Geographies, Vol.2, No.1, pp.28-49

Week 11: Inter-relations and conclusions

Essay QuestionsAnswer one of these question in an essay of approx. 2,000 words length. You can also formulate your own question. If unsure please ask the lecturer and/or tutor for advice.

1. Analyse a family using literature from the course outline as background (you can take a fictional family from a TV serial or a novel; you may also take a family who’s “in the public domain” as discussed in celebrity magazines or in official biographies…). Pay particular attention to the persistence of normative expectations as described by Parsons.

2. Consumerism is the folk religion in secular societies. Choose one or two examples and discuss this claim.

3. What is the significance of chronic illness for contemporary social life.

4. Outline the major differences between tourist and migrant experiences. Pay particular attention to the significance of those experiences for social identities.

5. Write a mini case study on a connection between two of the topics dealt with in the course (e.g. family and religion, migration and health etc.)

Be creative!

E.g. Use films like “East is East” and “Bend It Like Beckham” to illustrate hybrid identities or immigrant family dynamics. Or read a novel like V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswass and compare the family arrangements with the ideal type nuclear family…

Or graze the online newspaper archives and write a case study on a topic like, for example, “What does media coverage on the McCann case tell us about social ideals of the nuclear family?”… or any other topic that is in the remit of the course content. (Make sure you use academic literature to inform your sociological perspective on these). If you are unsure whether a topic is viable, ask the lecturer.

Examples for texts cutting cross topics – e.g. family and religion:

Tilley, James, R. (2003): ‘Secularization and Aging in Britain: Does Family Formation Cause Greater Religiosity?’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol.42, No.2, pp.269-78.

Thornton, Arland (1985): ‘Reciprocal Influences of Family and Religion in a Changing World’, in: Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol.47, No.2, pp.381-94.

Bahr, Howard M./Chadwick, Bruce A. (1985): ‘Religion and Family in Middletown, USA’, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 47, No.2, pp.407-14.

Wilcox, W. Bradford/Chaves, Mark/Franz, David (2004): ‘ Focused on the Family? Religious Traditions, Family Discourse, and Pastoral Practice’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol.43, No.4, pp.491-504.

For your literature research:

- use the electronic resources the library provides: IBSS, EBSCO, JSTOR, ArticleFirst etc.

- have a look at what texts are referred to in the literature

- browse through the shelves in the library: the book next to the one you’re taking out might be even more interesting

- make sure your referencing is consistent

Do not use websites as literature!!! Only peer-reviewed academic journals and published academic books will be accepted in the reference list. Never ever use Wikipedia as a source!

The internet can, nevertheless, be used as a source of material to be analysed. You can use it, for example, to examine how the globalised world looks like through the images provided by tour operators, or you can look at faith websites to analyse whether and how they “sell religion”. You can also use it for accessing government sources (like the Office of National Statistics on statistics.gov.uk, the Department of Health etc.), newspapers and media (some of them have quite good online archives – again: an article in the Daily Mail or the Guardian is not an academic source!)