BA (Hons) Sociology Bachelor's degree at the University of Sheffield

This module introduces students to doing social research. Students will explore this through close engagement with the ways other academic projects (including those conducted by staff in the school) have been done as well as through trying out various approaches to doing social research themselves such as designing surveys, conducting observations and carrying out interviews. Students will gain familiarity with the process of doing social research, from designing research questions, and consider

Inequality is a defining challenge of our time. On the one hand, it amplifies hierarchies between social divisions, such as race, gender, and class, and drives poverty and precarity for people at the bottom. On the other hand, it distorts democratic and political structures when power and wealth are overly concentrated in fewer hands. In this module, you will explore how inequalities arise from social divisions, and how these also interact to produce unequal outcomes. Throughout your learning,

This module aims to introduce you to major interventions and advances in social theory in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on a variety of crucial theories of social relations, conditions, and processes, such as social conflict, exchange, power, and resistance, among many others The module seeks to guide you in becoming familiar with, and in understanding the meanings of, the concepts, ideas, and arguments central to those social theories. Moreover, you will acqu

This module aims for in-depth investigations of decisive advances in sociology's theoretical inquiry into social relations, conditions, and processes. You will receive guidance in interpreting key concepts and ideas in a range of different contributions to social theory and in analysing the configurations of those concepts and ideas. The module will support you in developing the skills to engage closely with complex primary socio-theoretical writings in order to understand, reconstruct, and arti

Social inequalities and social divisions are fundamental challenges and complex problems in modern societies. This module aims to develop your understanding of societal inequalities and divisions, and of societal debates and actions to challenge and transform societal discourses, relations and structures that underpin social inequalities and divisions. Drawing on multidisciplinary sociological and social policy perspectives and debates, the module will develop your understanding of the complexit

This module aims to introduce and develop students' understanding of the concepts of hope, community and social justice and their related theoretical contexts, challenges and debates. Drawing on multidisciplinary sociological and social policy perspectives and debates, the module will develop students' knowledge and critical understanding of the concepts of hope, community and social justice and the range of historical and contemporary political and collective actions that have been shaped by tr

You will be introduced to the key concepts and debates that have shaped British politics with an emphasis on history, institutions and culture. Each lecture will focus on a specific element of British politics, with subsequent and linked seminars providing an opportunity to deepen this knowledge by looking at critical case studies or official reviews. This module provides key employability skills and practice based knowledge through a focus on the theory and practice of political decision-making

This module serves as an introduction to International Relations as a discipline. Throughout this module you will engage in key international relations concepts and discussions, including migration, climate change, poverty and global inequalities, sexual violence and armed conflict. As an introductory module, you have the opportunity to develop the tools needed to understand, analyse and reflect on in-depth theoretical and empirical international relations which shall continue to support you thr

This module aims to interrogate the role of gender and sex in shaping world politics. To do this, it asks how notions of masculinity and femininity shape our institutions, how gender might influence the political problems we prioritise and whose voices are taken seriously in developing responses to these problems. Students will answer these questions through the study of the politicisation of sex, the relationship between gender and violence, how current practices of gender are shaped by colonia