Module: Society, Space & Inequality

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Society, Space & Inequality
Module Code	GY212 (ITS) / GEO1028 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	History & Geography
Module Co-ordinator	Hamidreza Rabiei Dastjerdi
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Repeat examination

Description

Social geography is concerned with the ways in which social relations, social identities and social inequalities are produced and represented within specific spaces and places. This module analyses the various ways in which elements of human diversity such as gender, age, ethnicity and social class interact with and are constructed by space and place. In particular, this modules analyses how different social groups experience, use and are perceived in different spaces and places with a particular emphasis on inequality and social justice.

Learning Outcomes

1. Assess social class, social reproduction and social capital from the perspective of inequality
2. Analyse how different minority social groups experience space and are represented in space
3. Identify the existence of geographies of fear and assess the geography of crime in reality from the perspective of gender
4. Determine the ‘at risk spaces’ and ‘at risk factors’ of rape and sexual assault
5. Assess how the construction of space within institutions is based on the need for surveillance and is designed to control bodies (i.e. prisons, asylums, schools, workplace)
6. Recognise the role that geography plays in dictating leisure (i.e. design of shopping centres; geographies of going out)

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	Lectures
Independent Study	101	Independent Learning
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

What is social geography?
Definitions of social class, social reproduction and social capital

The geography of Travellers

Geographies of crime (burglary)
How crime is socially and spatially constructed?

Geographies of rape and sexual assault

Bodies, power and institutions
Schools, The workplace, The prison, The asylum

A Geography of shopping

Geographies of going out

Homelessness

Geographies of disability

Geographies of Institutions

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	50%	Examination Weight	50%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Essay	Essay submitted on Loop and a hard copy submitted to the School Administrator	25%	n/a
Short Answer Questions	An MCQ quiz	25%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Del Casino, V., Thomas, M., Cloke, P and Panelli, R.,: 2011, A Companion to Social Geography, London, Wiley Blackwell,
Panelli, R.,: 2004, Social Geographies, Sage Publications Ltd, London,
Pain, R., Burke, M., Fuller, D., Gough, J., Macfarlane, R., and Mowl, G.,: 2001, Introducing Social Geographies, Arnold, London,
Valentine, G.: 0, Social Geographies: Space and Society, Prentice Hall, England,
Pain, R. H.,: 1997, Social geographies of women’s fear of crime’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Bol. 22(2), pp. 231-244,
Valentine, G.,: 1989, ‘The geography of women’s fear’ Area, Vol. 21(4), pp. 385-390,
Whitzman, C.: 2007, ‘Stuck at the front door: gender, fear of crime and the challenge of creating safer space’. Environment and Planning A., Vol. 39, pp. 2715-2732,
Hubbard, P.,: 2005, ‘The geographies of ‘going out’: Emotion and embodiment in the evening economy’. In Davidson, J., Bondi, L. and Smith, M., (eds) Emotional Geographies., Aldershot, Ashgate,
Stratford, E.,: 2002, ‘On the edge: a tale of skaters and urban governance’. Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 3(2), pp. 193-206,
Collins, D.C.A and Kearns, R. A.,: 2001, ‘Under curfew and under siege? Legal geographies of young people’. Geoforum, Vol 32, pp. 389-403,

Other Resources

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