As part of the Welcome Week activities the
Sociology programme held a workshop for our new cohort of first year
sociologists which was titled ‘Being Sociological’. This workshop was in the style of a 'treasure hunt' and was
essentially aimed at getting students involved in the practice of ‘being
sociological’. The project introduced them to thinking about what sociology is
and also about how you ‘do’ sociology by conducting a mini sociological study of
Keele and the surrounding region.
Students were asked to get into groups and complete two out of
these three tasks:
1) A report on the local area using library resources
2) A photographic research task
3) An ethnographic observation task
In the photographic task students were asked to take photographs around
Keele campus on the following sociological themes: nature/culture, branding, discipline and
food. Students completing the ethnographic observations were asked to observe
one of the following sociological themes on campus: power relationships, gender
or communication. They were asked to draw a poster reflecting on their
observations.
Posters from the observations and photographs were emailed to us
and the class selected the winning entry which was a photograph on the theme of
Nature/Culture taken by Jenny, Lucy,
Elise and Leanne.
Here is a small selection of some of the other
images taken on the day.
