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For centuries, 'knowledge' was a subject area which attracted the serious concern of the philosophical circles. Knowledge was studied as an entity created by the human society along its intellectual advancement. The sociological concern of knowledge was developed much later in the twentieth century as a large number of anthropological and sociological studies revealed the worth of traditional and local knowledge that existed in non-intellectual societies according to the modern interpretation of "intellect".

Teacher: Avanka Fernando

Category: Semester 1

Sociology of Mass Media(SM/EM)

Name of Lecturer(s) : Dr. F Haniffa

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Teacher: farzana haniffa

Category: Semester 2

Sociology of the City SOC 3284

Course Description

This course unit introduces students to the main approaches to investigating the urban experience in the social space of the modern city.

Also, the course unit will ground students in an understanding of cities as critical nodes within a world that is increasingly interconnected socially, culturally, politically and economically.

It will investigate the causes and effects of this interconnectedness as well as the methods utilized to measure it. It will explore how the global context shapes urban issues, examining the global urban networks across which capital, labor and ideas flow.

Intended Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the sociological and anthropological approaches to studying cities and urban lives

2. Ability to analyse/evaluate and assess the key theoretical debates in the fields of urban anthropology and anthropology of the city / to have an awareness of the debates and be aware of how specific theoretical trends developed over time. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of anthropological and sociological theories regarding the cities

3. evaluate urban space and the make- up of urban environments

4. Relate the theory to specific ethnographic contexts in the analysis of the spatial cultural political and social characteristics of the modern cities

examine global changes and current trends in cities.

6 identify and assess the effects of technology and the changing labor, housing and land markets in 21^st-century cities.
illustrate how urban sociology might be used to anticipate and plan for changes and development in different urban settings.