In Sociology, we study human societies. We explore the forces that shape social life, the ways in which people relate to one another, the structures that pattern these relationships and the institutions that emerge from them. The teaching programme offered by Warwick covers a wide range of expertise shared by sociologists in the Department, giving you the opportunity to study within an extensive range of substantive areas including qualitative and quantitative research methods, gender, health, sexuality, youth, ethnicity, globalisation, migration, developing societies, media sociology, politics, education, crime and deviancy, social movements, religion, social policy, culture and labour relations.

Example modules

Gender, Class & Empire

This module offers a historical sociology of the evolution of gender, class and imperial relationships in Britain from the mid 18th century to the First
World War. It has three key aims: to enable students to understand the ways in which gender, class and empire were constitutive of the collective and social definitions constructed over this period; to consider the relationship between dominant discourses and social experience as well as social practice; to introduce students to historical sociology.

Field Studies in Social Research

This module introduces students to ethnographic field work and supports and enables them to undertake their own ethnographic study. We examine a range of approaches, strategies and methods of investigation used in social research but emphasise the practical, personal, ethical and political problems faced in carrying out ethnographic field research.

Modules in the Sociology Department are available to either full year visiting students or those joining for either the Autumn or Autumn & Spring terms.