Psychosocial Approaches

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ESSAY
work is Psychosocial Approaches to Constructions of Difference

Instructions

• Font should New Roman, Size 11, spacing line 1.5,
• reference should be included with page number
• 500 words for each question, 4 questions, total 2000 words
• Please could you put the page number of any reference you are given.

Question 1

RACE AND DIFFERENCE:
A CONCEPTUAL INTRODUCTION (500 words)
This should include / address the following point
• The definition of Race and Difference.
• Give example of life for experience clearly relevant to the arguments.
• Think critically and learn about the notions of ‘race’ and ‘difference’ for you as an ‘everyday’ person, and as a professional.
• What did you learn about ‘race’ as a psychosocial category of difference? give examples on the effects of ‘race’ on everyday life experience?
• How does knowing about historical foundations of racial hierarchies help us to understand racial constructions today? Why do you think it is important to examine ‘race’ as a historical construction?
• Do you think ‘racial hierarchies’ still work today? If so, how do these hierarchies affect our lives? give examples?
• How does ‘race problem’ is connected with ‘race relations’? give examples?
• What is the link between race and ethnicity, as psychosocial categories? explain by giving examples?
• What are your opinions about ‘racial ideology’ and its consequences? Please describe with examples.
Reference:
Montagu, A. (1997) ‘The origin of the concept of race’ in A. Montagu Man’s most dangerous myth: the fallacy of race (6th edition). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
https://moodle.uel.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=641588
https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/capatlism_and_slavery.pdf
and use other reference as well.

Question 2
INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN LATE MODERN TIMES.
Please write a 500-word reflective piece on the topic: THE EFFECTS OF LATE MODERNITY: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES.
This should include / address the following point
• Describe late modernity as a broader context to social construction of identity.
• Discuss the effects of late modernity on the lives of individuals and society.
• Describe specific terms such as dilemmas of late modernity, liquid modernity, individualisation and the vertigo of late modernity.
• Write about late modernity, changing social structures and relations this week? What ‘self-identity’ mean for individuals living in a post-traditional society?
• What changes do you think tell us the most about the consequences of late modernity? describe why and give examples?
• What are the main dilemmas in late modernity? Can you give any examples?
• How do you experience ‘distanciation’ (time and space separation) personally? give examples?
• In relation to what you’ve learned about late modernity and its effects on social and individual relations, what are your own experiences of late modern times?
• What does Bauman’s concept of ‘liquid modernity’ refer to? How do you think this liquidity affects the individual identities?
• Why does Young define ‘Vertigo’ as the illness of late modernity? What are the causes of this social illness? Can you give any examples?
• How does the notion of ‘difference’ help us to understand the complexity of our identities? give any real-life.

Reference
Bauman, Z. (2000) Liquid modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bauman, Z. (2009) ‘Identity in a Globalizing World’ in A. Elliott and P. du Gay, (eds.) Identity in question. London: Sage Press.
Beck, U. & Beck-Gernsheim, E. (2002) Individualisation: Institutionalised individualism and its social and political consequences. London: Sage.
Elliott, A. and Urry J. (2010) Mobile lives. London: Routledge.
Giddens, A. (1990) The consequences of modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and self-Identity: self and society in the late modern Age. London: Polity.
Giddens, A .(1994) ‘Living in a post-traditional society’, in Beck, U., Giddens, A. and Lash, S. (1994) Reflexive Modernisation, Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in Modern Social Order. London: Polity Press.
Hall, S. Massey, D., and Rustin, M. (2013) After Neoliberalism: Analysing the Present, in ‘The Kilburn Manifesto’, Soundings, available at: https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/manifesto.html
McGuigan J (2009) ‘The spirit of capitalism’ in Cool Capitalism. London: Pluto Press, pp 9-44.
Ray, L. (2007) ‘Globalisation and the social’, in Globalisation and everyday life. London: Routledge, pp 45-73.
Venn, C. and Featherstone, M. (2006). ‘Modernity’, in Theory, Culture & Society, March-May, 2006, Vol. 23 Issue 2/3, pp.457-465.
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Question 3
THE REFLEXIVE SELF, DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY.
500 word reflective piece on the topic of REFLEXIVE SELF, IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE.
This should include / address the following point
• What did you learn about the ‘reflexivity’ of modern social life? How do you think it affects you personally?
• Why do we approach to ‘identity’ as a reflexive project?
• In what ways is the reflexive identity connected to society and social structures?
• What does the phrase ‘being in charge of my life’ mean to you? give examples?
• According to Ulrich Beck, what is the core effect of reflexive modernity on individuals?
• How does being self-reflexive shape our everyday life? Do you have any experience of this? Can you give any examples?
• What does ‘do-it-yourself biography’ mean? give any examples of decisions that individuals make to build up their biography?
Reference.
Chaffee, D. (2012) Reflexive Identities (Chapter 6) in A. Elliott (Ed.) Handbook of Identity Studies. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Adams, M. (2003), The reflexive self and culture: a critique. The British Journal of Sociology, 54: 221–238. doi: 10.1080/0007131032000080212. Available at https://www.academia.edu/326167/The_Reflexive_Self_and_Culture_a_Critique
Beck, U. and Beck-Gernsheim, E. (2002) ‘Losing the Traditional: Individualisation and ‘Precarious Freedoms’’ in Individualisation, London: Sage Press, pp. 1-22.
Beck, U. (2000) ‘Living your Own Life in a Runaway World: Individualisation, Globalisation and Politics’ (164-174), in Hutton A & Giddens A, On the Edge, Living with Global capitalism, London: Jonathan Cape.
Beck, U., Giddens, A. and Lash, S. (eds.) (1994) Reflexive Modernisation, Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in Modern Social Order. London: Polity Press.
Elliott, A. & C. Lemert, (2009) The Global New Individualist Debate: Three Theories of Individualism and Beyond, in Elliott A & P du Gay, Identity in Question, Sage Press.
Elliott, A. (2008) Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens (pp. 44-52) in Concepts of the Self, London: Polity Press.
Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and self-identity; Self and society in the late modern age, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Rose, N. (1989) Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self. London: Free Associations Books
Featherstone, M. (2000) The Heroic Life and Everyday Life, in Undoing Culture, Globalisation, Postmodernism and Identity, Sage Press.
Giddens, A. (1992) The transformation of intimacy. Cambridge: Polity Press. (ch.7).
Lasch, C. (1991) The culture of narcissism, 2nd edition, New York: Norton Paper Back.
Lawler S (2008) Identity, Sociological Perspectives, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Question 4
POWER AND DISCIPLINE: A FOUCAULDIAN PERSPECTIVE
Please write a 500 words reflective piece on the topic , SOCIETY POWER, DISCIPLINE: A FOUCAULDIAN PERSPECTIVE.
This should include / address the following point / Questions:
• Definition of power and discipline.
• Give example, this might be a life experience that is clearly relevant to the arguments.
• How does Foucault define power in society?
• How does power effect your life personally? give examples?
• What is the connection between discipline and power in Foucault’s theory? give examples?
• In what ways do discipline and disciplinary techniques shape your individual life at home, at the university, at work? give examples?
• What are your experiences of disciplining yourself? give examples?
• How would you describe the connection between surveillance and self-surveillance?
• Do you have any experience of self-surveillance? If so, how does it shape your individual life at home, at the university, at work and at other places? Can you give examples?

Reference
Bartky, Sandra Lee, (1997) “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power” in Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, and Sarah Stanbury (eds.), Writing on the body: Female embodiment and feminist theory pp.129-154, New York: Columbia University Press. Available at
Gaventa, J. (online) ‘Foucault: power is everywhere’ available at https://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/foucault-power-is-everywhere/
Kendall, G. (2012) ‘Foucauldian approaches to the self’ (Chapter 4) in A. Elliott (Ed.) Handbook of Identity Studies. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Foucault, M. (1983) ‘Why study power: the question of the subject’ in H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow (eds) In Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. pp. 208-226. 2nd ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Please download the chapter on this link)
https://foucault.info/doc/documents/foucault-power-en-html
Heyes, C. (2007) ‘Cosmetic Surgery and the Televisual Makeover: A Foucauldian Feminist Reading’ Feminist Media Studies, Volume 7 Issue 1 pp. 17- 31. Available at
https://cressidaheyes.com.s112386.gridserver.com/wp-content/themes/headway-2013/media/images/2011/09/Heyes_FMS07.pdf
Johns, D. P., & Johns, J. S. (2000). Surveillance, subjectivism and technologies of power An Analysis of the Discursive Practice of High-Performance Sport. International review for the sociology of sport, 35(2), 219-234.
Llamas, J. (2006) Technologies of disciplinary power in action: the norm of the ‘good student’, Higher Education, vol 52(4), pp. 665-686.
McHoul, A. (1993) A Foucault primer: Discourse, power and the subject. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Vaz, P. & Bruno, F. (2003) ‘Types of self-surveillance: from abnormality to individuals ‘at risk’’. Surveillance and Society 1(3). pp. 272-291

Psycho social Approaches