Conditions of Life - Work - Identity, continuation course, 7.5 credits

Livsvillkor - arbete - identitet, fortsättningskurs, 7.5 hp

740G04

Main field of study

Social and Culture Analysis

Course level

First cycle

Course type

Single subject and programme course

Examiner

Zoran Slavnic

Course coordinator

Zoran Slavnic

Director of studies or equivalent

Zoran Slavnic
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F7KSK Bachelor´s Programme in Social and Cultural Analysis 3 (Autumn 2019) 201944-201948 English Norrköping, Norrköping C

Main field of study

Social and Culture Analysis

Course level

First cycle

Advancement level

G1X

Course offered for

  • Bachelor´s Programme in Social and Cultural Analysis

Entry requirements

For admission to the course, general entry requirements for second-cycle studies apply, as well as the specific entry regulations that apply to the Bachelor's Programme in Social and Cultural Analysis. In addition, 45 HE credits approved in Social and Cultural Analysis, school year 1, are required.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

- understand and problematise theoretical arguments about social change, from modern society to late modern or post-modern society with an emphasis on the importance of work in relation to living conditions and identity forming processes
- understand and critically reflect on relations between class, phase of life, gender and ethnicity on the one hand and work on the other
- present the central concepts and theories of the course in writing and reflect on them
- apply a rhetorical method for oral presentation (argumentation)
- present, scientifically argue for and defend a thesis, and argue against an antithesis in a panel debate.

Course content

The course covers relations between living conditions, work and identity, from mainly sociological, but also economic, perspectives. The course focuses on relations between class, age, income and identity forming processes in a changing society. Issues concerning work in relation to gender (intersectionality) and ethnicity are also covered.

Teaching and working methods

The teaching is based on student active working methods. Accordingly, the teaching takes the form of, for example, lectures, individual and group exercises, as well as through supervision.

Examination

The examinations are normally both in oral and written form. Oral examination comprises oral presentations of group examination assignments and participation in the discussion of the assignments. Written examination comprises an individual assignment and group work. The course is examined in two parts. A passing grade in the course requires a passing grade in both parts of the examination.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.

Grades

Three-grade scale, U, G, VG

Other information

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. 

The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

Department

Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier
Code Name Scope Grading scale
GRU1 Oral Examination 2.5 credits U, G
IND2 Written examination 1 1 credits U, G
IND3 Written examination 2 4 credits U, G, VG
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Linköping University common rules and regulations (in Swedish)
Lecture 1 (Zoran Slavnic): Work and labour markets. Sociological perspectives. Postmodernity/modernity. Suggested reading for this lecture: C. Wright, Mills (1951) White Collar: The American Middle Class. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 215-23. (Available on Lisam) Lecture 2 (Viktor Vesterberg): Employment and Employability. From the right to work right to the employability as duty Suggested reading for this lecture: Chertkovskaya, Ekaterina, Watt, Peter, Tramer, Stefan and Spoelstra, Sverre. (2013) ‘Giving Notice to employability.’ Ephemera. Theory & Politics in Organization. 13 (4). http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/giving-notice-employability Fogde, Marinette (2011) ’Att göra sig anställningsbar.’ Sociologisk forskning. Årgång 48, Nr. 4, sid. 25-43. http://www.politiken.se/tidskrifter/sf/sf11/sf1104-03.pdf Ulmestig, Rickard (2007) På gränsen till fattigvård? En studie om arbetsmarknadspolitik och socialbidrag. Lund Diss in Social work no 27: Lundsuniversitet. Pp. 75-83. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:227875/FULLTEXT01.pdf Lecture 3 (Zoran Slavnic): Work and Labour Markets - The precariat. Suggested reading for this lecture: Standing, Guy (2008) 'Economic insecurity and global casualisation: Threat or Promise?', Social Indicators Research, 88: 1, sid.15-30. Available at Lisam. Lecture 4 (Branka Likic-Brboric): East-West Labour Migration and Precarisation of Work Suggested reading for this lecture: Likic-Brboric, B. (2011) ‘EU Enlargement, Migration and Asymmetric Citizenship: Political Economy of Inequality and the Demise of the European Social Model?’ Globalizations, Special Issue: Migration, Work and Citizenship, 8 (3): 277-294. Likic-Brboric, B. , Z. Slavnic and C. Woolfson (2013) “Labour migration and informalisation: East meets West”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 33, No. 11/12, 2013, pp. 677-692. (Print ISSN 0144-333X) Lecture 5 (Anders Neergaard): Work and Labour markets: gender, class ethnicity and age. Suggested reading for this lecture: Acker Joan (2006) ‘Inequality regimes: Gender, Class and Race in Organizations’, Gender & Society, 20: 4. 441 – 464. http://gas.sagepub.com/content/20/4/441.full.pdf Tomaskovic-Devey, D. (2014). The Relational Generation of Workplace Inequalities. Social Currents. Hämtad från http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329496513514032 Other literature Literature on labour, employment and working life Allvin, Michael, et. al. (2006) Gränslöst arbete. Socialpsykologiska perspektiv på det nya arbetslivet. Malmö: Liber [English title: Work without boudaries: Psychological perspectives on the new working life] Berglund, Tomas & Schedin, Stefan (red.) (2017) Arbetslivet. Lund: Studentlitteratur Behtoui, Alireza (2006) Introduction (pp. 1-43), Unequal Opportunities: The Impact of Social Capital and recruitment methods on Immigrants and Their Children in the Swedish labour market. Linköping: Linköping University. http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:DiVA.org:liu-7789?tab2=abs&language=en Dolby, Nadine, Dimitriadis, Greg Willis and Paul (ed.) (2004) Learning to Labour in New Times. New York: Routledge Garsten, Christina & Kerstin Jacobsson (ed.) (2004) Learning to be employable. New Agendas on Work, Responsibility and Learning in a Globalizing World. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. Eriksson, Ulfsdotter, Ylva (2012) BeGreppbart: Yrke. Malmö: Liber Fogde, Marinette & Övling, Johanna (red.) (2014) Det globaliserade arbetslivet. Möklinta: Gidlunds förlag och Arbetets museum Garsten, Christina, Lindvert, Jessica & Thedvall, Renita (red.) (2011) Arbetets Marknad. Arbetsmarknadens nya organisering. Malmö: Liber Johansson, Håkan & Hornemann, Iver (red.) (2009) Aktivering. Arbetsmarknadspolitik och socialt arbete i förändring. Malmö: Liber Karlsson, CH, Jan (2013) Begreppet arbete. Definitioner, ideologier och sociala former. Lund: Arkiv Förlag Likic-Brboric, Branka., Slavnic, Zoran., & Woolfson, Charles. (2013) ”Informalisering: migration och arbete i ett utvidgat Europa”. I M. Dahlstedt & A. Neergaard (Eds.), Migrationens och etnicitetens epok: Kritiska perspektiv i etnicitets- och migrationsstudier (sid. 261-279). Stockholm: Liber. Likic-Brboric, Branka., Slavnic, Zoran., & Woolfson, Charles (2013) “Labour Migration and informalisation: East meets West”, in M. Dahlstedt & A. Neergaard (Eds.), International migration and ethnic relations: critical perspectives, London: Routledg Loury, Glenn C. (2002) The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Harvard: Harvard University Press. pp 55-109. Mulinari, Paula (2007) Maktens fantasier och servicearbetets praktiker: arbetsvillkor inom hotell- och restaurangbranschen i Malmö. Linköping: Linköping universitet, Institutionen för tema. Kap 4 (sid. 59-86) samt kap. 7 (sid. 135-154). http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:17137/FULLTEXT01.pdf Mulinari, Paula & Selberg, Rebecca (red.) (2011) Arbete. Intersektionella perspektiv. Malmö: Gleerups Mäkitalo, Åsa (red.) (2006) Att hantera arbetslöshet. Om social kategorisering och identitetsformering i det senmoderna. Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet. http://nile.lub.lu.se/arbarch/aio/2006/aio2006_16.pdf Neergaard, Anders (2006) På tröskeln till lönearbete: Diskriminering och exkludering av personer med utländsk bakgrund. SOU 2006:60. Stockholm: Fritzes. http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/6155/a/64822 Näre, Lena (2011) "The moral economy of domestic and care labor: Migrant Workers in Naples, Italy ', Sociology 45: 3, 396-412 http://soc.sagepub.com/content/45/3/396.full.pdf+html Paulsen, Roland (2010) Arbetssamhället. Hur arbetet överlevde teknologin. Malmö: Gleerups Sennett, Richard (1999) När karaktären krackelerar. Människan i den nya ekonomin. Stockholm: Atlas (English title: The Corrosion of Character. The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism) Sennett, Richard (2007) Den nya kapitalismens kultur. Stockholm: Atlas. (English title: The Culture of the New Capitalism) Sparrhoff, Gun & Fejes, Andreas (red.) (2016) Anställningsbarhet. Perspektiv från utbildning och arbetsliv. Lund: Studentlitteratur Vesterberg, Viktor (2016) Ethnicizing Employability. Governing the Unemployed in Labour Market Projects in Sweden. Linköping: Linköping University https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:922827/FULLTEXT01.pdf Willis, Paul (1993 [1977]) Learning to Labour. How working class kids get working class jobs. Hampshire: Ashgate (Available in Swedish titled: Fostran till lönearbete) Literature on the emergence of modernity Liedman, Sven-Eric (1997) I Skuggan av Framtiden. Modernitetens idéhistoria. Stockholm: Bonniers Marks, B, Robert (2004) Den moderna världens ursprung. Lund: Arkiv Förlag (English title: The Origins of the Modern World. A Global and Ecological Narrative). Literature on modernity / postmodernity (especially useful for the individual reflection assignment): Bauman, Zygmunt (1998) Arbete, konsumtion och den nya fattigdomen. Göteborg: Daidalos. (English title: Work, Consumerism and the New Poor). Bauman, Zygmunt (1999) Vi vantrivs i det postmoderna. Göteborg: Daidalos. (English title: Postmodernity and its discontents). Beck, Ulrich (2000) Risksamhället, på väg mot en annan modernitet. Göteborg: Daidalos. (English title: Risk Society. Towards a New Modernity). Beck, Ulrich (2000) The Brave New World of Work. New York: Polity Giddens, Anthony (1999) Modernitet och självidentitet; självet och samhället i den senmoderna epoken. Göteborg: Daidalos. (English title: Modernity and self-identity; self and society in the late modern Age). Giddens, Anthony (1996) Modernitetens Följder. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (English title: The Consequences of Modernity). Hall, Stuart & Gieben, Bram (eds.) (1992) Formations of Modernity. Understanding Modern Societies. An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press C. Wright, Mills (1951) White Collar: The American Middle Class. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 215-23. (Available on Lisam) Literature on the precariat (especially helpful to the panel discussion) Breman, Jan (2013) 'A Bogus cocept?', New Left Review, 84th http://newleftreview.org/II/84/jan-breman-a-bogus-concept Fleischer, Rasmus (2014): Anti-Standing (precariousness, precariat, casualization). http://copyriot.se/2014/01/27/anti-standing-prekaritet-prekariat-prekarisering/ Furåker, Bengt (2014) ’Recension: Prekariatet. Den nya farliga klassen’, Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, årg. 20, nr 3. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:800242/FULLTEXT01.pdf Munck, Ronaldo (2013) 'The Precariat: a view from the south', Third World Quarterly, 34: 5, 747-767 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436597.2013.800751 Seymour, Richard (2012) 'We are all precarious. On the concept of the "Precariat" and its misuses'. New Left Project. http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/we_are_all_precari ous_on_the_concept_of_the_precariat_and_its_misuses Standing, Guy (2013) Prekariatet. Den nya farliga klassen. Göteborg: Daidalos. (English title: The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class). Standing, Guy (2014) 'Why the Precariat is not a "bogus concept' ', Open Democracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/guy-standing/why-precariat-is-not- %E2%80%9Cbogus-concept%E2%80%9D Standing, Guy (2014) En färdplan för prekariatet. Vägen till ett fullvärdigt medborgarskap. Göteborg: Daidalos. (English Title: A Precariat Charter. From Denizens to Citizens). Literature on rhetoric and oral presentation: Bröms, Emelie (na) ’Vem vinner debatten när kropparna talar’, Retorikmagasinet. Available at Lisam. Chivers, Barbara & Shoolbred, Michael (2007) A Student's Guide to Presentations : Making your Presentation Count. London: Sage. (Available as e-book via LiU Library) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/linkoping/detail.action?docID=10285253 Juhlin, Lotta (2005) Den goda kommunikationen: rösten, kroppsspråket och retoriken, Lund: Studentlitteratur. Holmgren, Caicedo, Mikael (2009) BeGreppbart: Retorik. Malmö: Liber. Strömquist, Siv (2014) Konsten att tala och skriva. Malmö: Gleerups. Literature on identity: Du Gay, Paul (2007) Organizing identity. Persons and organizations ‘after theory’. London: Sage Johansson, Thomas & Hammarén, Nils (2009) BeGreppbart: Identitet. Stockholm: Liber. Mansfield, Nick (2000) Theories of the Self. From Freud to Haraway. New York: New York University Press. https://analepsis.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/subjectivity-nick-mansfield.pdf Wetherell, Margaret & Mohanty, Chandra Talpade (2010) (ed.), The Sage Handbook of identities. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. (Available as an e-book via LiU library). Fiction Lundberg, Kristian (2010) Yarden. En berättelse. Eslöv: Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion Ekelöf, Maja (2010) Rapport från en skurhink. Norsteds (There are several editions from various publishers).

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