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The module is taught online/digitally.
You need to register for both parts of the module to gain the full 6 CP.
If you have trouble registering, please contact Mrs. Kogler and include your full name, student ID and study program in your e-mail: melanie.kogler@uni-due.de |
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Course description:
The seminar focuses on the post-reform period and is organized around the theme of consumption. Consumption is often dealt with in the economic sense, as the other side of production and a portion of GDP. Our interest in this term and its application to Chinese society concerns its sociological meaning, which relates to the use and using up of things (Warde 2005). This approach provides both a thematic guide and a theoretical angle with which to examine key developments in contemporary Chinese society as well as the social practices and institutions therein. The course’s topics include the coalescence of the urban middle-class, the education system and its reforms, food security, user technology (such as WeChat), tourism, ethnicity, and gender. Pairing these topics with an overarching conceptual framework is intended to help prepare students to develop their M.A. thesis on sociological topics relating to China and East Asia. The main course material consists of recent readings in English by renowned Chinese and non-Chinese social scientists.
Literature:
Readings are assigned for each session. Students are encouraged to consult the syllabus for details on how to access readings.
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Certificates/Requirements:
Students are required to complete required readings, participate in class, and to present a research question and hypotheses for one class. Additionally, a 500-word and a 1000-word writing assignment will be assigned at the middle and end of the semester, respectively. |
