BSc Sociology,
Entry requirements
A level: AAB - BBC IB: 32 points
About this course
BSc in Sociology. Core topics include research methods. The programme includes dedicated modules in both quantitative and qualitative social science methods, covering social surveys, statistical analysis, interviewing and ethnographic observation. Students undertake a dissertation project in the final year.
Modules
- Being a Social Scientist
- Individuals and Society
- Sociology: The Classics
- Understanding Inequality: Capitalism, Money and Power
- Sociology: Contemporary Controversies
- Introduction to Sociology
- Interrogating Quantitative Social Science Methods
- Social Problems I
- Interrogating Qualitative Social Science Methods
- Investigating Gender
- Devolution, Policy Making and Social Change
- Poverty and Social Justice
- Education, Policy and Society
- Contemporary Moral Controversies
- Social Problems II: Media, Myths and Moral Panics
- Culture as Deviance
- Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Philosophy, Mental Health and Illness
- Capitalism and Justice
- Dissertation
- Black Mirror Sociology: Technology and Society
- Risk in Modern Society
- Understanding the sex industry: Theory, policy and practice
- Social and Environmental Harms
- Social Movements, Social Policy and Social Change
- Illegal Economies
- Race and Nation