Course summary

UK's top ranked sociology department Our sociology department is the UK’s top-ranked department for sociological research. What will I learn? This programme will provide you with a rigorous introduction to sociological research in the digital age. The programme combines training in “traditional approaches” to sociology with new theory and methods for understanding the digital world. We will study, for example, foundational questions in inequality, demography, and labour research with an emphasis on how the digital transformation has shifted our understandings. On this programme, you may take up the following specialised topics, including (but not limited to):

• work and labour

• inequality

• mobility

• relationships

• government and law

• technology