Urban Society and Civil Society in Historical Context (ES0079)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-USocCSoc

This survey course meets for 1.5 hours over 10 weeks. The nature of urban society and the modern nation state with their related national, ethnic, class and religious identities is explored through theories of civil society and of urbanism. Associational culture, the creation of identities and the rule of law, as elements of a civil society located between the imperatives of the state and the family, is placed in specific economic and cultural contexts and related to the development of liberal democracy and the market economy. Case studies are drawn widely with particualar attention to Scotland and Ireland since 1700.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Other subject areas

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
25/09/2007	09:30	11:50			William Robertson 232

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to develop:
- Advanced knowledge of and competency in a field of economic and social history.
- An ability to apply economic and social theory to an understanding of key themes in modern British society, urban development and national governance.
- A knowledge and understanding of the central historiographical issues generally, and in Britain, Europe and North America in particular, surrounding state and civil society in Britain.
- An awareness of primary and secondary sources within this field of study that could then be analysed in the specialist component of this course.
- The ability to engage with a specific issue in the history of Britain since the seventeenth century, incorporating appropriate literary, data analytical, and bibliographical skills.