Sociology

Create your own path through our Sociology course

Sociology at UEA offers a distinctive approach to the study of how society works, how culture and people’s identities are created and change over time, how relationship dynamics work in families, how communities change and how power operates within institutions.

You’ll learn theory and practice and be introduced to provocative issues that allow you to develop your own particular interests and ideas, and think about how the world is and how it can be.

During the course, you can choose to study from a range of specialist modules located within four pathways:

Criminology - explores not only the criminal justice systems relating to ‘crime’ and ‘criminals’, but also sociological perspectives on wider concepts concerning harm and social justice.
The sociology of children and families - draws on the School’s internationally respected scholarship on children and families, looking at a wide range of issues across regional, national and international contexts.
The sociology of social change - addresses social inequality, social justice and social change across a range of contemporary issues, topics and contexts.
Digital sociology - explores the role of digital media in our everyday lives, considering the technological developments that have changed or preserved the ways our social worlds are made and remade.

We have a large community of experts in Sociology ranging from social and political theorists, who explore and develop the models by which we understand social processes, to specialists in social policy, social work, education and international development.

We also have applied research expertise across a diverse range of themes covering children and families, contemporary youth culture, digital sociology, criminology, gender, inequality, globalisation and creating social change.