Sociology is an exciting subject that challenges your everyday experience. It will help you develop skills to assess different views and reach conclusions about society, based on careful consideration of evidence. 

Students should be interested in contemporary social issues and will be expected to be well informed in political and social debates. 

Here look at the role religion and belief play in today’s society. We will look at the impact of globalisation and ‘rational’ thinking on belief. We also explore how the rise of science and secular thinking is leading to ‘crisis of meaning’ leaving some individuals ‘lost’.

Here we explore the role crime plays in today’s society. As Glenny puts it “we have to know that organised crime impacts all sorts of areas of our lives. You don't have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organised crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.”