Course description
Unit 1: Families
- Functions of families
- Family forms
- Conjugal role relationships
- Changing relationships within families
- Criticisms of families
- Divorce
Unit 2: Education
- Roles and functions on education
- The relationship between education and capitalism
- Educational achievement
- Processes within schools
Unit 3: Crime and Deviance
- The social construction of crime and deviance
- Social Control
- Criminal and deviant behaviour
- Data on crime
Unit 4: Social stratification
- Functionalist theory of stratification
- Socio-economic class
- Life chances
- Poverty as a social issue
- Power and authority
- Power relationships
Unit 5: Sociological research methods
- Research design
- Quantitative and qualitative methods
- Different types of data
- Primary and secondary sources
- Interpretation on data
- Practical issues
- Ethical issues
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