Submit Case Study (4000 words) for SY3093 Space, Place and Contemporary Culture
Select ONE ‘Space’ AND a ‘sociological study’. Then examine the chosen site via the existing theoretical approaches discussed in the module. Also draw upon their chosen study to see how it reflects, contests or compares to what they can discover about the chosen site.
Discuss the impact of their chosen space or study on contemporary culture, and vice versa. Finally, the student must critically evaluate the consequences of their discoveries for wider society.
Choose ONE of these:
SPACES
Narborough Road, Leicester
Notting Hill
Belfast
Las Vegas
High Rise Flats (anywhere, really)
Online (a setting of your choice)
Disneyland (any park)
Leicester City Centre (including Highcross)
St Pancras Railway Station
An Airport Terminal
Tiananmen Square
Hong Kong
AND ONE of these:
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES
Homes in High Flats OR A Troubled Area (Jephcott)
The Established and the Outsiders (Elias and Scotson)
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality (Echo)
Sidewalk (Dunier)
Life on the Screen (Turkle)
Non-Places (Auge)
On The Run (Goffman)
The Family Life of Old People: An Inquiry in East London (Townsend)
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain (McKenzie)
Poverty: The Forgotten Englishmen (Coates and Silburn)
