Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2022-2024
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2022-2024
OUA-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Use key sociological theories to explain the basis of contemporary social issues.

2.

Explain the relationship between individual and collective behaviour using a sociological lens.

3.

Analyse the sociological foundations of key social institutions such as the family, education and religion.

4.

Apply key sociological concepts to everyday life scenarios.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:The unit asks you to consider the following questions: • To what extent are we products of our social environments? • How do gender, class, ethnicity, ideology etc., influence how we think and act? • What is power, how is it used, by whom, and for what ends? • What do we mean by saying that we live in a ‘celebrity society’?