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Sociology 7192
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Theory and Methods (Papers 1 and 3)
Quantitative and qualitative methods; research design
Questionnaires and social surveys
Interviews: structured, unstructured and group
Observation and experiments
Documents and official statistics; secondary data
Positivism, interpretivism and 'social facts'
Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories
Modernity, post-modernity, science, value freedom and social policy
Education (Paper 1)
Role and functions of the education system
Social class differences in educational achievement
Gender differences in educational achievement
Ethnic differences in educational achievement
Relationships and processes within schools
Educational policy, marketisation and globalisation
Methods in Context (Paper 1)
Applying methods to education: pupils, teachers, schools
Questionnaires and experiments in educational research
Interviews in educational research
Observation in educational research
Documents and official statistics in educational research
Crime and Deviance (Paper 3)
Crime, deviance, social order and social control
Social class and crime
Ethnicity and crime
Gender and crime
Patterns and trends in crime; measuring crime
Globalisation, green crime, state crime and human rights
The media and crime
Crime control, surveillance, punishment, victims and the criminal justice system
Paper 2 Option 1: Culture and Identity
Conceptions of culture: subculture, mass, folk, high, low, popular, global
Socialisation and the agencies of socialisation
The self, identity and difference
Identity, age, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality and class
Identity, production, consumption and globalisation
Paper 2 Option 1: Families and Households
The family, social structure, social change and state policies
Marriage, cohabitation, divorce and family diversity
Gender roles, domestic labour and power in the family
Childhood and the changing status of children
UK demographic trends since 1900
Paper 2 Option 1: Health; Work, Poverty and Welfare
Health: social construction of health, illness, disability and the body
Health: unequal social distribution of health chances in the UK
Health: inequalities in provision of and access to health care
Health: mental illness; medicine, health professions and the global health industry
Work and poverty: nature, existence and persistence of poverty
Work and poverty: distribution of poverty, wealth and income
Work and poverty: state, private, voluntary and informal welfare
Work and poverty: the labour process, worklessness and globalisation
Paper 2 Option 2: Beliefs in Society; The Media
Beliefs: ideology, science and religion
Beliefs: religion, social change and social stability
Beliefs: churches, denominations, sects, cults and New Age movements
Beliefs: social groups, religiosity, secularisation and globalisation
Media: the new media and their significance
Media: ownership, control, globalisation and popular culture
Media: selection and presentation of the news
Media: representations and audiences
Paper 2 Option 2: Global Development; Stratification and Differentiation
Development: development, underdevelopment and global inequality
Development: globalisation, transnational corporations, NGOs and agencies
Development: aid, trade, industrialisation, urbanisation, environment, war and conflict
Development: employment, education, health, population and gender
Stratification by social class, gender, ethnicity and age
Dimensions of inequality: class, status, power and life chances
Defining and measuring social class
Changing structures of inequality and social mobility
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