ED10347: Deviance: psychological and sociological perspectives
[Page last updated: 05 August 2021]
| Academic Year: | 2021/2 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Education |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW100 |
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| Aims: | The intention of this unit is to:
* familiarise students with the historical background to notions of deviance in relation to education, children, and young people. * introduce students to a broad notion of deviance (including formal and informal forms of deviance). * examine different psychological and sociological approaches to the study of deviance in education, childhood, and youth. * familiarise students with implications of deviance for policies and practices in education and services for children and youth. |
| Learning Outcomes: | In completing this unit students will be expected to:
* account for different definitions and interpretations of deviance in relation to education, children and young people. * explain how deviance evolves from sociological and psychological perspectives. * recognise and appreciate different theoretical approaches to the study of deviance. * have an increased awareness of the ways in which society responds to deviance through policy and practice. * develop an argument in relation to the appropriateness and relevance of theoretical approaches, policies and practices with regard to a particular form of deviance in education, childhood or youth. |
| Skills: | * Comprehensive and scholarly written communication (e.g. essays) * Effective oral communication (e.g. seminar presentations) * Ability to select, summarise and synthesis written information from multiple sources * Ability to apply theory into practice * Ability to select and use appropriate ideas to produce a coherent response to a pre-set question * Ability to formulate a research question, then develop and present an original & coherent answer * Ability to produce work to agreed specifications and deadlines * Ability to work effectively as part of a group or team |
| Content: | * Consideration of the historical change in attitudes to deviance in the UK. * Different definitions and interpretations of deviance in relation to education, childhood, and youth in sociology and psychology (e.g. structural-functionalism, symbolic interactionism, power-conflict theories); consideration of consequences of deviance (formal and informal deviance). * Psychological and sociological approaches to the study of deviance; critique of these approaches. * Dimensions of gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality and how these shape notions of deviance. * Deviant groups of population among children and young people in the UK. * Policy formation as a response to deviance; forms of societal and organisational practices that serve to prevent deviance; critique of policies and practices. |
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ED10347 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
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