Sociology

This module supports the development of a range of transferable academic skills which will underpin future research and written/oral assessment. And facilitate independent learning and reflective practice.

In this module, you'll look at issues of injustice and discrimination in society and consider the role and limits of law and legal policies in addressing them.

Explore the issues surrounding youth, identity and difference across the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on international perspectives, politics, human geography, history, psychology and Anthropology.

This module introduces concepts, theories, theorists, texts and debates that have been influential in explaining the origins and development of sociology. Enabling the evaluation of sociological schools of thought and your own standpoint, to show how this links into the social research process.

Explore the sociological significance of popular culture, and its dissemination through contemporary media. To enable the emergence of critical approaches to understanding the social implications of media and popular culture.

Explore the influence that popular culture, change and transitions in the wider society have on the healthcare practices of diverse social groups and the implications of this.

Explore the work of influential sociological and social thinkers, key concepts and concerns, in the context of post-industrial and the information age. Discover how these approaches can support and frame understandings and explanations of the social world.

Develop knowledge of sociological concepts and theories on the impact of historical context and social change and transition on religion, sects and cults, and societal perceptions of these.

This module will provide you with innovative and contemporary applications of social research the issues and complexities that these have and how we could apply them to different areas of social phenomena.

In this module, you'll explore critically strategies of collective action and organisational forms of social movements. This will help you to develop a critical awareness of the historical, geographical and social contexts of, and for, collective action and social movement activism.

Examine patterns of violence across different contexts, through sociological theories, concepts and methods, with a view to analysing and reflecting on representations of violence.

Develop informed insights into career progression and translate this knowledge into practice. While increasing your understanding of how policy is operationalised in workplace settings.

You will aim to understand the challenges of defining globalisation, looking at the origins of the globalisation process as well as the current and future issues and challenges raised.

Your dissertation will normally be related to an area of interest of a member of the academic staff who'll be able to supervise the project. You'll devise an appropriate methodology and theoretical framework and regularly write up your ideas for discussion with your supervisor.

Explore the nature of childhood and its relationship to society and how and why this differs across social systems and societies.

This module will introduce you to the multidisciplinary field of migration studies and its main theoretical frameworks and concepts. You'll analyse the social lives of migrant groups and situate those lives within the context of the regulations and policies that govern them.

The aim of this module is to introduce you to a wide range of academic disciplines to the key theories, concepts and discourses relating to disabilities in the UK and beyond. You'll engage with the emergence of alternative perceptions of impairment and which factors may disable people. You'll also develop a more nuanced understanding of disability as a lived experience.

Supporting your critical understanding of the impact of government policy on exploited and marginalised groups, and how this is translated into practice within a range of different countries.

This module will explore the major theoretical and research themes involved in the analysis of violence. Module topics may include but not be limited to: A consideration of the historical and contemporary social processes that contribute to different forms of violence ranging from individual actions to genocide. It will explore issues of violence, aggression and masculinity. This will be done with reference to examples such as racist crime, homophobic crime and domestic violence. Subjects to be examined may include: Historical and sociological approaches to violence; Popular culture and violence; Gangs and youth violence; Hate crime; Violence, crime and gender; Conflict in schools; Political violence; Violence against animals; Ethnic violence; Religion and violence; Violence in the Night Time Economy Male on Male Homicide; Football related violence; Women who Kill; Mass Murder & Serial Killing; Violence within Correctional Settings; State and Legal Violence.

Throughout this module, you'll engage critically with theoretical perspectives and debates around the body and sexuality in all its manifestations.

In this module, you'll explore critical representations of gendered violence in the media and how culture, ethnicity and sexuality operate. And explain how western jurisdictions respond to questions raised by violence against women.