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Social Anthropology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:26.11.2020 09:48:02
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_198 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences; Communication Theory | Target Audience: | Information and Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilva Skulte | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Communication | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, kfko rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67409183 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of the history of ideas and qualitative social research methods. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To strengthen knowledge of social anthropology approaches, theories and methods and their potential use in the field of communication and media studies. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Social anthropology: thematic range, theoretical approaches, methodological solutions. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Points of contact between communication studies and anthropology. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Methodological approaches to social anthropology | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Opinion of social anthropologists about gender and sex. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Anthropology, health, media. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Reflection of health in media. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Reflections on independently performed empirical research through the prism of theory. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To read scientific articles on theoretical approaches to social anthropology and empirical studies of media, communications, gender, diseases and health. To prepare the following questions: • What topics/issues are discussed in the article? • What can you learn from it? How does the analysis carried out in the article enables re-evaluation of earlier ideas about the topic/issue? • What are main problems of communication, gender relations, health problems from the point of view of different communities and institutions? To select a research method and to conduct a small empirical research, as well as to present it to study peers. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Participation in lectures and seminar discussions, performance in the practical empirical research and its presentation. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students can name and explain theoretical approaches and main discussed matters in social anthropology research about media, communication, gender and medicine, as well as find their way around the range of social anthropology research methods. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students are ready: • To evaluate qualitative social research methods, their advantages and gaps in clarification of specific issues being studied. • To create a research design based on anthropological research methods. • To critically analyse the statements, expressions and communication channels distributed in media about sex, gender roles, gender relations, diseases and health. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are able to use their knowledge and skills in the area of studying social problems, including for the purposes of research journalism to be able to identify problems related to the role of media in society and politics, communication, gender relations and role and stereotypes about disease and health. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Barnard, Russel, H. 2006. Research Methods in Anthropology. Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Fourth edition. Oxford: AltaMiraPress. Chapter 13. Participant Observation. | ||||||||
| 2 | Bullock, K. H., and G. J. Jafri. 2000. Media (Mis)Representations. Muslim Woman in the Canadian Nation. Canadian Woman Studies 20:34-40. | ||||||||
| 3 | Ēriksens, T. H. 2010. Mazas vietas - lieli jautājumi. Ievads sociālantropoloģijā. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds. 8.nodaļa „Vecums un dzimumsocialitāte” | ||||||||
| 4 | Friberg, T. 2009. Burnout: From Popular Culture to Psychiatric Diagnosis in Sweden. Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry 33:538–558. File | ||||||||
| 5 | van der Geest, S., S. Reynolds Whyte, and A. Hardon. 1996. The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals: A Biographical Approach. Annual Review of Anthropology 153-178. File | ||||||||
| 6 | Ginsburg, F. D., L. Abu-Lughod, and P. Larkin. Editors. 2002. Media Worlds. Anthropology on New Terrain: University of California Press. Introduction. Pp. 1-36 File | ||||||||
| 7 | Grahame, P. R. 1998. Ethnography, Institutions, and the Problematic of the Everyday World. Human Studies 21:347–360. File | ||||||||
| 8 | Gurven, M., and K. Hill. 2009. Why Do Men Hunt? A Reevaluation of “Man the Hunter” and the Sexual Division of Labor. Current Anthropology 50:51-74. | ||||||||
| 9 | Hacking, I. 2002[1986]. "Making Up People," in Historical Ontology. Edited by I. Hacking, pp. 99-114. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press. File | ||||||||
| 10 | Harper, D. 2002. Talking about pictures: a case for photo elicitation. Visual Studies 17:13-26. | ||||||||
| 11 | Jackson, J. 2008. Toward an Ethnographic Lingua Franca: Communication and Anthropology. Journal of Communication 58:664–678 File | ||||||||
| 12 | Lock, M. 2002. "Medical Knowledge and Body Politics," in Exotic No More. Anthropology on the Front Lines. Edited by J. MacClancy, pp. 190-207. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. File | ||||||||
| 13 | Metzl, J. M. 2003. Selling Sanity Through Gender: The Psychodynamics of Psychotropic Advertising. Journal of Medical Humanities, 24:79-103. File | ||||||||
| 14 | Nightingale, V. 2012. Media ethnography and the disappearance of communication theory,. Media International Australia 145:94-102. File | ||||||||
| 15 | Nyíri, Pál.Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How the "New" Chinese are Changing the Meaning of Chineseness in Cambodia. | ||||||||
| 16 | Sedlenieks, K., L. Blauzde, K. Imša, E. Kursīte, M. Miķelsone, M. Prombergs, V. Savicka, and E. Zalāne. 2014. Tālruņa sociālā dzīve. Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte. | ||||||||
| 17 | Varrel, A. 2012. "Gender and intergenerational issues in the circulation of high skilled migrants" in Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration. Edited by E. K. A. Kraler et al.pp. 335-354. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. | ||||||||
| 18 | Ward, M. C. 2006 [2002]. "A world full of women," in Anthropology. Annual Editions 2006/2007. Edited by E. Angeloni, pp. 118-126. Dubuque, IA: McGraw Hill. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bernal, V. 2005. Eritrea on-line: Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere. American Ethnologist 32:660 – 675. | ||||||||
| 2 | Davies, C. A. 1999. Reflexive ethnography. A guide to researching selves and others. London and New York: Routledge. [RSU bibliotēkas Informācijas centrā]. | ||||||||
| 3 | Gal, S. 1994. Gender in the post-socialist trnasition: the abortion debate in Hungary. East European Politics & Societies 8:256-286. | ||||||||
| 4 | Reiter, H. 2010. ‘In My Opinion, Work Would be in First Place and Family in Second’: Young Women's Imagined Gender–Work Relations in Post-Soviet Lithuania. Journal of Baltic Studies 41. | ||||||||
| 5 | Lane, C. M. 2009. Man enough to let my wife support me: How changing models of career and gender are reshaping the experience of unemployment. American Ethnologist 36:681-692. | ||||||||
| 6 | Matza, T. 2009. Moscow's Echo: Technologies of the Self, Publics, and Politics on the Russian Talk Show. Cultural Anthropology 24:489–522. | ||||||||
| 7 | Moeran, B. 2006. More Than Just a Fashion Magazine. Current Sociology 54:725–744. | ||||||||
| 8 | Putniņa, A. 2005. "Vīrieši Latvijā: situācijas ieskicējums," in Demogrāfiskā situācija šodien un rīt, vol. 3(4), Zinātniski pētnieciskie raksti / Stratēģiskās analīzes komisija. Edited by P. Zvidriņš, pp. 58.-92. Rīga: Zinātne. | ||||||||
| 9 | Roudakova, N. 2008. Media-political clientelism: lessons from anthropology. Media, Culture, Society 30:41-59. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Ancāne, G., M. Kūle, A. Villeruša, V. Pīrāgs, A. Lūse, K. Sedlnieks, P. Apinis, and J. Zālīte. 2012. "Sievietes sociālās lomas un to radītie izaicinājumi 21. gadsimtā," Rīgas Stradiņa Universitātes Psihosomatikas klīnika. www.psihosomatika.lv | ||||||||
| 2 | Ancāne, G., V. Pīrāgs, and V. Sosārs. 2012. "Drosmīgs vīrietis mūsdienās," Rīgas Stradiņa Universitātes Psihosomatikas klīnika. www.psihosomatika.lv | ||||||||
