Sociology

Course summary

• Unit 1 Education and Methods in Context - Including the role and functions of the education system and the significance of educational policies, including policies of selection, marketization and privatization. • Unit 2 Topics in Sociology: Families and Households and the Media. • Unit 3 Crime and Deviance - Understanding what crime, deviance, social order, and social control are, and the social distribution of crime and deviance by ethnicity, gender, and social class, including recent patterns and trends in crime. Investigating the impact of globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime; green crime; human rights and state crimes and how crime is controlled.