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:
- The Sociology of Children and Families
- Criminology
- Digital Sociology
- The Sociology of Social Change
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.
Courses
Sociology
Get to grips with how society really works. You’ll explore how we fashion our identities, how communities change, how relationship dynamics work in families, and...
Sociology with a Year Abroad
Get to grips with how society really works. You’ll explore how we fashion our identities, how communities change, how relationship dynamics work in families, and...
Society, Culture and Media
Contemplate the influence of media on the world as we know it – and what a world without it would be like. On this course, you’ll study the effect of newspapers,...
Research
People
Academic Staff - Sociology

Human activity has degraded more than a third of remaining Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest has been degraded by a much greater extent than scientists previously believed, according to a new study.

UEA research project supporting the use of technology to improve teacher experiences gains funding boost
A new University of East Anglia (UEA) research project supporting the use of technology to improve the experiences of teachers has received a funding boost from...

Indian women in agriculture lack skills training and opportunities
Young rural women in India are increasingly working in agriculture, but new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and RV University Bengaluru shows...

New film highlights the issues facing inshore fishing communities
A new film produced by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) highlights the “crisis” facing fishing communities in the UK.