Anthropology

The course provides a basic introduction to cultural and narrative criminology, neutralization theory, and studies of crime, war, and social harm inspired by discourse and narrative analysis. It discusses links between the different traditions and the background in social constructivist theory and methodological influences from the humanities.

This course examines the driving forces behind social media addiction. It covers the underlying technical mechanisms and psychological factors that cause behavioral addiction to social media. In addition, the accumulative effect of social media addiction on our personal and professional lives, as well as societies across the world, will be discussed.

In this course, anthropology is approached from a philosophical point of view and with philosophical methods. The course consists of three units. The following main topics are addressed: key concepts for the epistemology of anthropology, philosophical accounts of human nature from antiquity to modern age, and evolutionism and anthropology.

This course focuses on the development of ‘modern’ London (c.1800 to the present day) to explore a set of wider intellectual issues about the nature of cities and urban ways of life. It takes an interdisciplinary perspective drawing upon a range of and scholarship –including social and cultural history, art history, geography, and sociology –central to the broad field of urban studies. Three sets of interrelated themes provide a theoretical focus: modernity and the city; landscapes of power and inequality; and culture, identity and urban space. The three main sections of the course deal with key periods of in the history of modern London. The first part of the course, London: Capital of Modernity, examines the ways in which London became a ‘modern’ city in the 19th Century. The second part of the course, The Challenge of Modernity: London in the Twentieth Century, considers London in the turbulent decades of the early 20th Century and the efforts to repair bomb damaged London and the comprehensive reconstruction of some parts of the city after World War Two, The third part of the course, Global London: Transforming Society and Space,  studies in depth some of the major features of the city in the later 20th and early 21st Centuries, focusing on London’s global city characteristics and considers intellectual debates about contemporary society and culture in an urban context.