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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

30-SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Sociology

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Extend and develop your knowledge of core areas of sociological scholarship and research methods. Immerse yourself in established and emergent ideas in the discipline and engage in debates around the most pressing sociological challenges in the social world.

Course description

This course offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in established and emergent ideas and debates around the most pressing sociological challenges in the social world.

The course is driven by the research of academics on the masters team, with a mix of core and optional modules designed exclusively for masters students. In your core modules, you will cover topics including advanced sociological thinking, engaging current sociology, and advanced qualitative and quantitative methods.

You can also explore areas of sociological research that interest you through a range of optional modules. These are likely to include the sociologies of digital worlds; intimacies and everyday life; social division and interaction; and advanced qualitative or quantitative methods.

Please see our University website for the most up-to-date course information.

Modules

This module explores concepts, arguments, and ideas that have decisively advanced social and sociological theory. After briefly revisiting works that have characterised early social thought, the module focuses on key interventions in 20th and 21st century socio-theoretical scholarship. Key areas of investigation on the module include, among others: critical theory, radical feminist theory, postmodern thought, and poststructuralist thought. In exploring these areas, students on this module will interrogate a range of pressing sociological concerns, such as exchange, communication, exploitation, domination, oppression, power, and resistance. Students will learn to interpret, analyse, and evaluate the implications of major advances in social thought both for the critical examination of contemporary social relations and conditions and for the conception of sociology as the study of the social world.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£10,710

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£23,760

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant social science subject (e.g. sociology, social policy, politics, anthropology, international relations or development studies).