1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

0 cultural possibilities: construction and deconstruction in
electronk technology;
on-line writing activities using MUDs and MOOS;
interactive fiction-writing using 'Storyspace.'
Recommended reading
Ulmer, G. Heuretics. The logic of Invention. Baltimore, Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1994
Delany, P. and Landow, G. (eds) Hypermedia and Literary Studies.
Cambridge, M.1.T Press, 1991
Bolter, J. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History
of Writing. Hillside, N.J. Earlbaum,l991
LSM302 Information Society: Promises and
Policies
3 hours per week Lilydale Pwequistite: core subject and
two stage two subjects Assessment: I major tutorial
presentation I major research assignment
A stage 3 subject in the Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of
Social Science
Objectives
To examine the convergence of broadcasting, information
technology and telecommunications in the context of
political economic and social changes associated with the
notion of an information society.
Content
Information society: conceptual paradigms;
political economy of information society: control,
competition and choice;
0 Australian telecommunications: beyond the duopoloy;
globalisation: cultural imperialism revisited;
privatisation: impact and effects;
national information policies: Singapore, U.S.A.,
Australia:
the broadband revolution: supply and demand;
media and telecommunications policy in Asia;
public broadcasting crisis of identity;
social agendas: privacy, equity, abuse;
futures methodologies: media and telecommunications.
Recommended reading
Lyon, D. %I$ormation %aay:hmand Ih-ims, Polity Press, 1988
Green,L. and Guinery,R (eds) Framing Technology, Allen &
Unwin, 1994
Wark, M, Virtual Geography, Indiana University Press, 1994
LSSl 00 Families and Societies
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: nil Assessment:
Tutorial attendance and participation, essay and examination
A stage 1 subject in the Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of
Social Science
Objectives and Content
Families and Societies introduces the discipline of sociology
through a comparative study of the family. It begins by looking
at the family as a social institution, as opposed to a biological
formation. It then examines the history of the family, the
influence of the market and the state, kinship and community,
marriage and divorce, and children. The course examines
differences in family patterns accordmg to social class, gender
and ethnicity. It also considers contemporary issues and
sociological debates, for example the rise of divorce, the impact
of commercial childcare, and the decline of the welfare state.
Family patterns in Australia are compared with family patterns
in other societies, concentrating upon Western Europe, North
America and East Asia.
Recommended reading
Briggs, F., Children and Families: Australian Perspectives, Sydney,
Allen & Unwin, 1994
Gilding, M., The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family,
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1991
Haralambos, M. and Holborn, M., Sociology: Themes and
Pempectives, rev.edn., London, Collins Educational, 1991
LSS2OO Sociology of Deviance and Social
Control
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: LSSI 00
Assessment: Methodology Exercise, Debate Tutorial
Participation Essay (2000 words)
A stage 2 subject in the Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of
Social Science
Objectives and Content
The study of deviant behaviour and social control raises
questions about the nature of social order and the use of
knowledge and power by some groups in society to
reinforce their positions of dominance and control.
This subject deals with persons and actions defined as socially
unacceptable and the attempts to control, reform or eliminate
them. The first part of the subject examines the contributions
which a variety of sociological perspectives have made to the
understanding of deviant behaviour and the social responses it
evokes. Three main forms of control the criminal justice
system, the medical, psychiatric, or therapeutic system and the
welfare system will be analysed in the second section of the
course. Finally, the ways in which a sociological approach can
inform policy and practice in a number of specific social
problem areas such as child abuse, corporate crime, domestic
violence and AIDS will be identified.
Recommended reading
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hes shire, 1991
Edwards, A. Regulation and Representation, Sydney, Allen &
Unwin, 1995
Anleu. S. Deviance, Conformitv and Control. Melbourne, Longman
LSS2Ol Sex and Gender in Society
3 hours per week Lilydale Prerequistite: LSSlOO
Assessment: major essay (3500 words), final examination
A stage 2 subiect in the Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of
'2
Social Science
Objectives and Content
Sex and Gender in Society examines the ways in which the
biological differences between men and women are socially
structured to produce gender differences within and between
societies. It analyses arguments about male-female
differences, gender identity and sexual identity.