BSc Sociology and Social Policy
About this course
Explore new and creative ways to tackle key social challenges. Learn theory and methods to understand, critically examine, and influence organisations. Explore new and creative ways to tackle key social challenges. Learn theory and methods to understand, critically examine, and influence organisations. This course will appeal if you want to combine an understanding of the social world from different perspectives with a rigorous analysis of policy responses to social problems. You will examine theory and techniques from sociology alongside the analytical focus of social policy. Youâll explore areas such as health, welfare and poverty, race and discrimination, inequality and exclusion. By the end of the course, youâll have an understanding of how social institutions develop and operate and how they might be improved. In Year 1, you'll be introduced to social theory, ideas about the state and social change, and the central traditions of social research. Youâll select an option in either criminology or international development.
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