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SOCI103 Social Change in Contemporary Society resources
This is a first year core module that has 270 registered students.
Learners are provided with a detailed reading list and a module guide with additional readings.
The module is split into 3 blocks: Race, Class and Gender.
Week 1: What is ‘Race’, what is ‘Ethnicity’?
What is race and what is ethnicity? Video
Liverpool International Slavery Museum
Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA-The Lancet
Racial Profiling Is a Public Health and Health Disparities Issue
In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism
New MBRRACE report shows Black women still four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth
Black maternal healthcare and mortality
Resources to Challenge Policing and Incarceration as Part of a COVID-19 Response
Week 2: Post War Immigration and State Controls
Yarli Allison full exhibition at FACT Liverpool here
Akala Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire video
Nationality, Citizenship, and Migration to Britain, 1945-1951
From slavery to Windrush-my family’s story-video
Who were the Windrush generation? – video
Week 3: Racism, Identity and Conflict
Community Cohesion: a new framework for race and diversity
‘It’s true, I’m English… I’m not lying’: essentialized and precarious English identities
Akala, The Battle for Britishness in the age of Brexit- video
Professor Arun Kundnani-Writings on race website (excellent resources)
Week 4: Migration Today
The embedding of state hostility
Constructing Immigrants: Portrayals of Migrant Groups in British Newspapers, 2010-2012
‘Swamped’ by anti-immigration communications
Is Immigration needed if British people won’t do jobs? -video
Week 5: The Great British Class Debate
What is your 21st century class?
Navigating Academia as a Working-Class Academic- Dr Teresa Crew
Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times
Beck, individualization and the death of class: a critique†
Does class still matter?- video
Week 6: Class and Culture: ‘Lifestyle’, ‘Choice’ and Politics
Displaced Masculinities: Chavs, Youth and Class in the Post-industrial City
Poverty Talk: How People Experiencing Poverty Deny Their Poverty and Why They Blame ‘The Poor’
The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation
Beyond the factory: Struggling with class and class struggle in the post-industrial context
Wacquant Bringing the Penal State Back In-video
Week 7: Class, Educational Inequalities and the Myth of Meritocracy
School choice, social class and distinction: the realization of social advantage in education
Surviving Sociology podcast with Dr Jenny Thatcher
Keeping it Classy: Wedding Dresses and Distinction- Dr Jenny Thatcher
Higher Education and working class academic books- Dr Teresa Crew
Navigating Academia as a Working class academic- Dr Teresa Crew
Who would be a working-class woman in acadmeia? Dr Lisa Mckenzie
Getting By. Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain-Dr Lisa McKenzie
Sociology Show podcast-Dr Lisa McKenzie
Author Kerry Hudson on growing up in poverty
Papafilippou, V. and Bentley, L. (2017) ‘Gendered transitions, career identities and possible selves: the case of engineering graduates’, Journal of Education and Work,30(8), pp. 827-839.doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2017.1375088
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?
Week 8: Feminism
“Stay the fuck at home!”: feminism, family and the private home in a time of coronavirus
The waves of feminism, and why people keep fighting over them, explained
Extending bell hooks’ Feminist Theory – Hazel Tionloc Biana
‘Please pray for me’: female reporter being hunted by the Taliban tells her story
‘Nowhere to go’: divorced Afghan women in peril as the Taliban close in
Miss Papua New Guinea stripped of her crown for TikTok twerking video
My Style Is Not ‘For’ Men – It’s To Protect Me From Their Violence
Quarter of women and girls have been abused by a partner, says WHO
Unpacking feminism in water governance
Criminologist or criminal? Liminal spaces as the site for auto/biography-Gemma Ahearne
Carceral feminism and its Critics- Gemma Ahearne
Injustice Disrupted: Experiences of Just Spaces by Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence
Becoming a feminist methodologist while researching sexual violence support services
Criminological futures and gendered violence(s): Lessons from the global pandemic for criminology
The Shadow Pandemic- University of Liverpool resources
Epidemic of violence against women under way in England and Wales – report
The Observer view: We can no longer turn away, femicide must be tackled now
China feminists face clampdown, closure of online accounts
Clare’s Law and Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes
Dangerous Femininities- Dr Gemma Commane
Princess Latifa Hostage Ordeal
Getting Away With Murder? A Review of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’
Rape culture and social media: young critics and a feminist counterpublic
Criminalising coercive control may not make women and children safer, family violence advocates warn
What Does R. Kelly’s Conviction Mean for Black Women?
R. Kelly’s ex-wife tells her story of their marriage: ‘People have no idea’
Tarana Burke- Me Too- ‘You have to use your privilege to help others’
The waves of feminism explained
Injustice Disrupted: Experiences of Just Spaces by Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence
Anna Terweil- What is Carceral feminism?
Kaleidoscopic Justice: Sexual Violence and Victim-Survivors’ Perceptions of Justice
Being Silenced: The Impact of Negative Social Reactions on the Disclosure of Rape
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls- video
Holding Things in Tension Whilst Researching VAWG-video
Being a woman in the Covid-19 pandemic: A research study
Chinese uproar as state TV host calls gold-medal winner a ‘manly woman’
Week 9: Masculinities
A very personal call to action for non-violent men to denounce men’s violence
It’s a ‘man’s problem’, so how do we talk to boys about sexual harassment?
Shifting the line: Boys talk on gender, sexism and online ethics
The trouble with boys: what lies behind the flood of teenage sexual assault stories?
Troubled Men and Threatening Women: The Construction of `Crisis’ in Male Mental Health
Dibs on that Sexy Piece of Ass: Hegemonic Masculinity on TFM Girls Instagram Account
Power through Knowledge: Ignorance and the ‘Real Man’
Pit Bulls and Dogfighting as Symbols of Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
Speaking ‘unspeakable things’: documenting digital feminist responses to rape culture
Egypt police graduation ceremony-video
Men question own behaviour in new Police Scotland sexual violence campaign
The Barber Shop, Sociological Review-video
Week 10: Intersectionality
Audre Lorde- The Master’s Tools
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
Black feminist and digital media studies in Britain
Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi showed a generation of female writers how to be fierce
Why Chloé Zhao’s historic best director Oscar win matters
Iran’s women mechanics challenge
Black women and the media in Britain
Why I’m fighting for the representation of Black women in the media
This Visual Artist Is Highlighting Nigerian Women’s Stories of Gender Violence
Minding the Gap-Lived experience of BAME women in pregnancy and childbirth
Black women in the UK four times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth
Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care
Egyptian feminist movement: a brief history
Deliberate Beauty- Mona Eltahawy
Meet the Female Stars of YouTube’s Muslim World Who Vlog Without Showing Their Faces
No You cannot touch my hair- Mena Fombo video
The Uk’s first Hijabi firefighter
Professor Kimberle Crenshaw Intersectionality Matters podcast (45 plus episodes available)