The interests of the department include issues of gender, reproduction and race.
Sociologists are concerned with understanding all aspects of society and social life.
They study families, industrial firms, churches, crowds, political parties, not only in modern industrial nations, but also in tribal and historical societies, and in contemporary developing nations. To examine social life, sociologists use logical and systematic methods of analysis which reveal the patterns of social action. The Department of Sociology has 11 academic staff with a wide range of interests in Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy. You will be taught by means of lectures, seminars and practical exercises, and you should expect an increasing emphasis upon seminar discussion and project work in the second and third years. You will also have regular tutorials in which you meet to discuss essays with your tutor, together with a small group of other students.