Professor T Newburn, OLD 2.27

Compulsory for BSc Social Policy and Sociology. Optional for BSc Social Policy, BSc Social Policy and Economics, BSc Social Policy with Government and BSc Social Policy and Criminology. Available to General Course students and as an outside option.

This course introduces students to sociological ideas and thinking and seeks to link these to some key illustrative areas of social policy. The course takes as its organising theme in the first term the idea of 'social order' and explores this through such concepts such as social hierarchy and stratification, social integration and interaction, social control, urbanisation and risk. In turn, these are then explored in greater empirical detail in the second term through social policy concerns such as: health inequality; education and social class; unemployment, poverty and deprivation; surveillance and social control; and globalisation and development.

Lectures: 20 x SA101.Classes: 20 x SA101.A, MT, LT.

One essay per term is required.

There is no set text for the course, and a full reading list is provided at the first class. However, excellent background reading can be found in: Fulcher, J. and Scott, J. (2011) Sociology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edition; Giddens, A. (2009) Sociology, Cambridge: Polity Press, 6th edition; Mills, C.Wright, The Sociological Imagination (most recent edition, OUP, 2000); and Alcock, P et al., (2003) The Student's Companion to Social Policy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

A three-hour written examination in the ST.