Sociology

Course summary

Using a range of engaging methods, we explore the following topics in sociology: • Education: This includes the roles and functions of the education system, the impact of policies, the hidden curriculum as well as a range of other issues. • Families and households: This includes the sociology of personal life, and the diversity of contemporary family and household structures. • Crime and deviance: In this topic students explore crime, deviance, social order and social control, crime control, surveillance, prevention and punishment, victims, and the role of the criminal justice system and other agencies. •Global development: Issues in relation to aid and trade, industrialisation, urbanisation, the environment, and war and conflict as well as the role of transnational corporations, non-governmental organisations and international agencies in local and global strategies for development. • Social research methods: Students examine the following areas: quantitative and qualitative methods of research, research design, sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, participant and non-participant observation, experiments, quantitative and qualitative data and much more!