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MA - Master of Arts
Hope Park Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
This postgraduate programme in Sociology aims to redefine how we think about society in the context of capitalism and globalisation and the ways we can contribute to actively creating change. Our courses encourage the students to develop an ability to visualise new political realities while exploring the topics of social divisions and inequality, and their links to political economy. We aim to facilitate an understanding of intersections between class, gender, race, and disability in relation to the latest scholarly developments in Marxist, feminist and postcolonial theory. Our ethos is not only related to creating a learning environment in which the students can make sense of current political turbulence experienced globally, but we also strive to create new knowledge in interaction with our cohorts. Being a part of our MA programme means working and interacting with lecturers, who are experts in their respective fields and becoming a part of our vibrant research community.With strong focus on research, this course enables our students to develop the central skills required to analyse, understand and critically evaluate a variety of sociological issues. The programme benefits from the knowledge and teaching skills of research active colleagues across the School of Social Sciences and is therefore a strong example of authentic interdisciplinary teaching. We provide the students with an opportunity to thoroughly explore and critique the most recent developments and scholarship in the discipline and to communicate this experience to others through an extended, supervised research project, designed to spark further development within the chosen fields. Our ethos is not only related to creating a teaching environment in which the students can make sense of current political turbulence experienced globally, but we also strive to create new knowledge which might contribute to global efforts at creating social change.
This module adopts an innovative pedagogical approach, which combines a study of research philosophies with practical exercises, thereby providing insights into strategies and experiences acquired by social scientists at Liverpool Hope. Here, you will learn about a diverse range of innovative research techniques and become equipped with the skills to design a high-quality research dissertation.
You will engage with, evaluate and critically analyse a range of classical and contemporary social theory, with a focus on theoretical explanations of social change in the areas of economic relations, political ideologies, and patterns of political domination.
This module presents an innovative way of teaching inequalities, which does not only focus on contemporary forms of social exclusion, including those based around class, gender and race, but also incorporates a study of how individual identities are affected by these inequalities. The module explores mechanisms of representation and stigmatization of minority groups and their role in reproducing social exclusion and injustice.
The focus of the research project will be on an issue of relevance to the study of sociology. The study can involve the collection of primary data or a literature-based dissertation.
This module examines the sociological study of political action. It covers key theories of democracy, globalisation, social movements and citizenship, while drawing on and applying concepts of power and ideology. The course investigates social change and asks whether we are moving into a post-democratic age, and what this means for human societies and how power is constituted within them.
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