Course summary

This programme provides core teaching in the ideas and approaches of sociology as applied to understanding social order and social change globally and internationally. It explores the local impacts of global processes, and the global impacts of local processes. During this intensive, one-year programme you will explore these processes by developing your own research agenda, both in coursework and in a supervised dissertation project of your own choice. The programme presents sociology as the study of a dynamic and globalising world, around such areas as:

• environment and sustainable development

• migration, refugees and displacement

• the sociology of globalisation

• gender, emotions, intimate and family life

• global financial markets, economic sociology and global capitalism

• social network analysis

• social movements and global inequalities

• human rights and citizenship

• digital and global popular cultures