Sociology

Course summary

Course Outline PAPER 1 – COMPULSORY – Education with Theory and Methods Education: • the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity and educational achievement. • recent reforms to the educational system. Theory and Methods: • the nature of sociological thought. • the methods of social enquiry. PAPER 2 options selected by the College Families and Households: • the different family structures over time and place and current trends regarding marriage and divorce. • demography. • childhood and relationships between family members. Beliefs in Society: • critical awareness of contemporary social processes. • the study of beliefs in society, why some societies are clerical and others secular. • the extent to which religion can act as both a conservative force and as an agent of social change. PAPER 3 – COMPULSORY – Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods Crime and Deviance – This option focuses on debates in contemporary society through a detailed study of crime and deviance. The social construction of crime and deviance are considered and the ways in which crime is socially distributed, explained and reduced. Theory and Methods – the nature of sociological thought, the methods of social enquiry.