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

Language and intercultural expert awarded highest teaching accolade
Dr Leticia Yulita, who teaches Spanish and Intercultural Communication in the School of PPL, has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, the highest...

Student entrepreneurs design prize-winning app to predict and prevent rainforest wildfires
Two pioneering University of East Anglia (UEA) students have received funding for a project to give Bolivian citizens the tools to fight wildfires in the...

USA slumbers, Europe leads in electoral integrity
The world’s leading democracy is falling behind on electoral integrity, according to new findings from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Royal Military...

UEA’s research confirmed as ‘world-leading’ by national assessment
The global significance and real-world impact of the University of East Anglia’s (UEA’s) research has been confirmed with the Research Excellence Framework 2021...