该学位课程面向对社会学有一般兴趣的学生，他们希望更新，扩展和加深他们的知识并了解该领域的最新发展。该计划旨在通过参与当代研究以及进行历史和比较研究，为学生提供扩展其学科知识的机会。
This degree is intended for students with a general interest in sociology who wish to update, extend and deepen their knowledge and understand current developments in the field. The programme aims to provide students with opportunities to expand their knowledge of the discipline by engaging with contemporary research and by undertaking historical and comparative study.<br>The module provides postgraduate level training in the main varieties of qualitative and mixed methods research in the social sciences, including basic literacy in qualitative data analysis. Locating the research process in debates about situated knowledge, reflexivity and subjectivity, show how research design is unavoidably grounded in assumptions about the nature of the phenomena to be investigated and how researchers are implicated in the things they describe. Students are taught how to generate qualitative data and how to apply a variety of analysis techniques. The use of mixed methods is addressed through examples of text analysis, visual interpretation and online social research. Training in the use of NVivo qualitative data analysis software is an integral part of the module and takes place alongside the sessions dealing with analysing conversation, interviews, observations, ethnographic accounts, texts and visuals.<br>Qualification<br>MA in Sociology, Postgraduate Diploma in Sociology, Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Social Sciences<br><br>Careers<br>Graduates will find employment in a range of sectors valuing critical theoretical, analytical and methods skills. Further studies form another avenue, including PhD and subsequent jobs in teaching and research. An MA in Sociology can lead to working in politics and the media, or for business and social enterprises.