社会学关注于理解社会生活及其在社会生活中的位置。它可以帮助我们理解和解决棘手的问题，例如贫困，移民，隐私和社会动荡等问题，并提供有关我们文化和日常生活的见解。数十年来，社会学家一直在为棘手的政府和政策问题提供答案，为行业提供信息并应对不平等挑战。您将由国际公认专家的职员教书，以确保他们的引人入胜的教学处于学术理解的最前沿，具备知识和技能，可以在各种专业中取得成功，并深入了解关键的理论和方法了解社会世界，以及在研究，信息通信技术，批判性思维和高级问题解决等领域的可移植技能。
Sociologists have for decades been providing answers to difficult government and policy questions, informing industry and challenging inequalities.<br><br>Sociology is concerned with understanding social life and our place within it. On this course, you will study human connections and relationships, and how these connections, as well as social structures, such as social class, race and gender, are linked to the way we behave. You will tackle difficult questions around issues such as poverty, sexism, austerity, immigration, privacy and social unrest, and gain insights into our cultural and everyday lives.<br><br>Our world today faces multiple crises, each of which impact on society in ways that require astute analysis. From the cost of living crisis in the UK to the global environmental crisis and international conflict, people around the world are dealing with rapid changes to the communities they live in, with many becoming unaffordable or even uninhabitable. At the same time, new digital technologies mean people around the world are more informed and connected than ever before and cultural changes mean many more people are expressing identities that were at one time suppressed or even criminalised.