BSc (Hons) Sociology Bachelor's degree at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

Introduces students to 'knowing' humans through the lenses of key social sciences – Psychology, Sociology and Education Studies. Students will explore ways that humans seek to understand their place in the world, such as learning, research, art, religion, philosophy and science.

The start of sociology students' systematic study of society and social life. Students will engage with works by key classical sociologists to explore a range of topics and concepts such as the body, urban life, emotions, gender, sexuality and race.

Focuses on enhancing students' academic skills. This includes developing tools for effective learning; an introduction to ethical learning including the use of artificial intelligence; how to interpret tasks and questions; styles of writing; engaging with feedback and accurate and appropriate academic referencing.

Further explores key social scientific understandings of the human condition and engage in long-running debates on topics related to social, religious, cultural, political, economic and technological developments and concerns.

Engages students in a variety of both classical and contemporary ideas and thinkers in sociology to further develop their knowledge and critical thinking across different themes and contexts in society; including identity, culture and social inequalities.

Equips students with a foundational knowledge of the aims and purposes of research and an understanding of key concepts relating to research efficacy, power, ethics and methods of data generation and analysis.

Asks students to explore and reflect on how "wicked issues" are framed by the media, politicians and policymakers. The module invites students to explore alternative social scientific perspectives of these issues and the many ways in which students' lives are entangled with the lives of others.

Encourages students to revel in the historical and theoretical roots, and substantive applications, of an engaged, Public Sociology, whilst recognising the different 'communities' and 'publics' for whom Public Sociologists can, and perhaps ought, to represent.

Encourages students to revel in the historical and theoretical roots, and substantive applications, of an engaged, Public Sociology, whilst recognising the different 'communities' and 'publics' for whom Public Sociologists can, and perhaps ought, to represent.

Develops students understanding of some the ways in "race" and coloniality continue to structure current systems and structures, such as in education, media, criminal justice system and immigration and asylum policies.

Focuses on how culture enters into and mediates everyday social relations and practices. Students will consider a range of aspects of both material and immaterial culture from a sociological perspective, including the built environment, food and drink, subcultures, museums, art and childhood.

Provides students with real-life, collaborative learning experiences through employer-briefs. Students learn to recognise and reflect on their skills and to forge links between the content of the curriculum and real-life application, thus providing a useful first step towards the development of their graduate identity.

Examines the relationship between work, organisation and wider society both in an historical and contemporary 21st century context. Students explore key concepts such as labour, industrialisation, modernity, capitalism and social class, as well as new management practices, workplace 'culture change' initiatives, the rise of the 'precariat,' flexibilization, emotional labour, technology and AI.

Focuses discusses and analysees sociological theory and current academic debates through the prisms of a selection of core sociological dichotomies, such as structure/agency, sex/gender, continuity/change and public/private. These dichotomies are applied to a range of topics including, memory, social movements and disability.

Explores inequality, poverty, and social exclusion as contested concepts. Students explore a range of social policy and welfare state responses to issues including unemployment, homelessness, child welfare inequalities, the lived experience of looked after children and the lived experience of informal carers.

Presents theories and concepts required for the analysis of interaction as a socially-organised, practically organised, phenomenon. This is done by means of an in-depth analysis of the works of the main representatives of the interpretative and interactionist traditions, ranging from Mead to Goffman, Schütz and Garfinkel.

The second distinctly Public Sociological module on the programme, and explores topics related to knowledge, learning and power, as well as asks students to deploy critical educational praxis in engaging sociologically with publics whilst further developing reflexive and reflective skills.

Extends students' knowledge of qualitative research methods and prepares them to design a feasible and ethically sound qualitative research project. By critically engage with data and knowledge as socially produced, the module problematises how data is imagined/conceived, how it is gathered/produced and how it is interpreted, analysed and presented.

A crucial element of the final, Honours year of the programme, which is specifically designed to enhance students' disciplinary expertise. Students will design and undertake – supported by a supervisor - an independent research project with the ultimate aim of making some meaningful contribution to the body of academic, sociological knowledge.

Shows the sociological imagination at work in understanding different aspects of contemporary Scotland. Students explore the relationships between economy, society, culture and politics and the post-devolution of Scottish society.

Focuses on the comparative analysis of inequality, poverty, and social policies in European welfare states. Emphasis is placed on the explorations of cross-national data relating to employment, health and social services.