Other : PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES

for the first part, You are required to write an 800-word critical reflection on the selected discipline (PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES) A critical reflection is an exercise in which you are asked to write about one of the disciplines you have been introduced to by discussing and analysing it. To support your answer with evidence and examples you will need to refer to the weekly readings, lectures and other relevant module materials. Your answer should aim to provide answers to the following…

1. Critically discuss how Marx understands power. 2. How does Althusser’s notion of ‘interpellation’ help us to understand power? Illustrate your answers with reference examples. 3. How does Fanon’s analysis of colonialism and violence help us to understand power relations? 4. Discuss the relevance of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex for understanding gender power relations today. 5. How does Gramsci’s theory of hegemony help us to understand power? Explain your answer with reference to examples. 6. Can the subaltern…

Essay Questions for Love Part 1 These are the essay titles for the Love essay . The essay should be 2000 words in length. Please choose ONE of the following titles: 1.    Discuss the claim that ‘the psychosocial literature on feelings and emotions, love and loss, is distorted by the absence of awareness of cultural, social and ethnic diversity.’ 2.    Discuss the claim that love ‘is the emotion that depends most on culture, even though we think it is psychological,…

Global Cities Lecture 4: The Carceral City: Law, Technology, Surveillance, Dr Bernard Keenan Advance Reading: ‘The Panopticon’, Bentham Project, University College London, available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-project/who-was-jeremy-bentham/panopticon Date accessed: 16 Jul. 2019. Your Rights During Police Trials of Facial Recognition Technology, Net Pol, 12th February 2019, available at: https://netpol.org/2019/02/12/your-rights-during-police-trials-of-facial-recognition-technology/ Date accessed: 16 Jul. 2019. ‘Policing by Machine’, Liberty, January 2019, available at: https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/sites/default/files/LIB%2011%20Predictive%20Policing%20Report%20WEB.pdf Date accessed: 16 Jul. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm84tFxphnA&feature=youtu.be