Thursday 5 May 2011

DD101 Introducing the Social Sciences - Week 12

The suggested time table for Week 12
    
     ‘Introduction’ to the ‘Ordered lives’ strand (45 minutes)
     Chapter 7 of Making Social Lives (7 hours)
     Online Activities 22 and 23 (2 hours)
     ‘Making and comparing arguments’ (Developing skills Audio CD) (45 minutes)
     Online Quiz: Making Social Lives, Chapter 7 (10–15 minutes)


To be completed by 6th May.

"Making Social Order", Chapter 7, was an interesting read, and with Online Activities 22 & 23 all about the ideas of Goffman and Foucault, and the papers from Buchanan and Monderman, it looks like this chapter pretty much sets itself up as containing the answer to TMA04, a 1500 word essay on "Compare and contrast two views of how social order is produced in public spaces."

Having scanned the next two chapters I can't see an alternative set of views that are as rich in information, and Chapter 9 about the census seems out of order, as that would have been better read before TMA03.

So I guess the hard part of this essay is, a good and thorough introduction, properly planned and written answer that addresses the question to 'compare and contrast', a suitable conclusion and everything well referenced.

So I need to re-read the chapter making notes specifically for the TMA, re-read the section on answering questions and check I know what they want from compare and contrast, and then I can start on the essay while working through the other two weeks work

There is now only about 3 weeks until it has to be submitted, seems a quick turn around on this one.

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