Bachelor of Behavioural Science - Postsecondary Education Quality ...

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Course Title
Social Psychology
(Advanced Level)
PSYC 403
Sociology of
Consumption
(Advanced Level)
SOCI 401
Sociology of Health
SOCI 200
Calendar Course Description
better. Social entrepreneurs develop micro-level political
structures to challenge established institutional patterns that
block social change. Most social entrepreneurship is not the
product of single charismatic individuals but of ideas generated,
propagated, and implemented by groups, networks, and formal
or informal organizations. In this course we will examine the
growth in the number of socially entrepreneurial organizations
globally that address various social and environmental issues
and also look at how these organizations are moving into the
mainstream. This course will synthesize research and lessons
from practice by leading social entrepreneurs and scholars in
the field. It aims to help future social entrepreneurs succeed in
building a better world where all people, regardless of
geography, background, or economic status, enjoy and employ
the full range of their talents and abilities.
Social Psychology is an extremely diverse field that generally
deals with people in social situations. Core topics include social
behaviour such as aggression, obedience, conformity, intimate
relationships, discrimination, and how groups function. They
also include attitudes, social cognition, social perception,
prejudice, and feelings of guilt, all of which are assumed to
affect social behaviour. In addition, we will cover some applied
areas, such as psychology and the law. We will also discuss
basic methodological issues as they pertain to the above topics.
Class discussion will be an integral part of the course.
It‘s not who you know, but who you wear. Such is the advice
from dedicated followers of fashion and others who might urge
us to declare our identities and allegiances through the codes of
consumption. The pursuit of the good life has been replaced by
that of the ―goods life.‖ As the globalization process seeks to
expand the market economy, this expansion requires the
manufacture of desire for ever more ―stuff‖ and an industry
devoted to the creation of the false hope that just one more
purchase may buy happiness. This course tackles some of the
most compelling interpretations of the function of consumption.
Through exposure to a variety of contemporary and classical
theories, students reflect on the social patterns of consumption
and how these patterns reproduce, subvert, or reformulate
inequalities of class, gender, and ethnicity. In order to promote
self-reflexivity about our own role in the marketplace, methods
of resistance are studied and arguments for ecological
constraint are considered.
This course presents new ways to think about the body, health
and illness and to see them not only as biological phenomena
but also as culturally and socially mediated experiences.
Students are asked to explore questions that frame mainstream
views on health and health care, as well as perspectives that
challenge these views. Medical practice traditionally sees the
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