Sociology

Course summary

Module 1 ● Education ● Role and functions of the education system ● Differential educational achievements of social groups in contemporary society ● Relationships and processes within the school ● Significance of educational policies and the impact of globalization on educational policy ● Theory and Methods ● Quantitative and qualitative methods ● Sources of data and distinctions between primary and secondary data ● Positivism, interpretive sociological methods, and ethical influences ● Consensus, conflict, and social action theories ● The concepts of modernity and post-modernity ● The relationship between theory and methods Module 2 ● Families and Households ● Relationships of family and social structure ● Industrialisation and Urbanisation ● Changing patterns and diversity ● Demographic trends in the UK since 1900 ● Nature and extent of change: Gender roles ● Domestic labor ● Power relationships ● Child status and childhood Module 3 ● Beliefs in Society ● Different theories ● Its role as a conservative force and initiator of change ● Cults, sects, denominations, and churches ● Relationship between religious beliefs, organizations, and social groups ● Secularisation Module 4 ● Crime and Deviance ● Explanation of crime, deviance, social order, and control ● The social distribution of crime ● Age, social class, ethnicity, gender and locality ● Globalization and crime in contemporary society ● Role of the criminal justice system