Sociology @ Hull
Sociology at Hull brings together explanations of large-scale
social processes with an informed understanding of the individual
experience of social reality. Students of sociology develop
expertise in applying the intellectual tools and conceptual
frameworks necessary for understanding contemporary social life in
its complexity and cultural diversity. Sociology asks critical
questions about how and why our society came to be the way it is
and why people in society tend to act as they do.
Our degree programmes are genuinely global in scope and draw on
contemporary developments in sociology, engaging with ethnography,
religion and secularism, culture and representation, changing
social identities, new forms of power and resistance, and the
increasing mediatisation of social life, along with more
conventional sociological concerns such as the individual, class
and gender. We have recently developed a range of fresh
modules for teaching sociology, relating to real concerns of social
life in the twenty-first century.
A degree in or including sociology enables and encourages
students to develop skills for graduate careers in our globalizing
world. Sociology may be taken as a single honours subject or in
combination with other closely allied subjects as follows (click on
the link to find out more).