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Upon successfully completing this course, students will be better equipped to:
- Identify the relevance of different sociological approaches for making sense of and addressing the climate crisis.
- Recognise the multiple interconnections between climate change and other crises.
- Identify the possibilities of collaboration between social research and other disciplines in order to combat climate change.
- Apply sociologically theories to selected case-studies;
- Critically examine the links between climate change and key sociological categories (e.g. modernity, class, gender, racism).
- Critically examine the links between climate change, income inequality, capitalism and democracy;
- Appraise different proposals for addressing the climate crisis;
Modernity and the Great Acceleration.
Climate change and capitalism.
Decarbonising democracies.
The rise of environmental social movements.
Policy Responses (e.g. Green New Deal)
Decarbonising everyday life (the economy, food, transport, housing, urban landscapes).
Just transitions and the Global South.
Thinking sociologically about climate change using the European Social Survey.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 8 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 16 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 101 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Not yet recorded. |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Dr Ebru Isikli | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |