Sociology

Course summary

Sociology explores society and the interaction between institutions and individuals. You will study research in areas such as culture, socialisation, youth subcultures, globalisation and the digital world, crime and deviance, and social inequality. Students will explore how sociologists use a range of research methods to gather data. Particularly popular areas of the syllabus are studying youth subcultures, digital social media (Y1) and crime and deviance (Y2). Sociology differs from Psychology, in that psychologists study individuals, whereas sociologists study groups. For example, we look at why marriage rates are very low generally or why women are twice as likely as men to instigate a divorce, whereas psychologists look at the pheromones and hormones that alter in your brain when you fall in love.