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ANTH6916: Culture and Development: Key Concepts
2024 unit information
The unit introduces key social science concepts relevant to Development Studies. Students will learn to identify and critically assess fundamental ideas in social theory, including society as social facts, social action and change, the moral dimensions of human life, intercultural relations, and the idea of the global and universal in human societies.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. identify and distinguish central paradigms and key concepts of the social sciences and their roots in social theory
- LO2. critically assess how different theoretical frameworks in the social sciences shape different methodological, analytical and ethical approaches to social and cultural realities
- LO3. identify and critically assess scholarly arguments and analysis in the traditions of social theory
- LO4. apply theorisations and key concepts of social theory to an understanding of historical, current and new development paradigms and their social and cultural impact
- LO5. develop critical thinking, research, writing and oral presentation skills to engage with and contribute to advance development and anthropological knowledge
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