This course introduces you to the key ideas of sociology by examining the relationship between individuals and societies. The course explores how social processes shape individual lives, and how changes […]
How can we conceptualise the inequalities of social class, generation, race, disability and gender? How are such inequalities bought about through processes across the life course, from cradle to grave? […]
Inequalities in health are observable among groups of the population whether categorised by class, occupation, income, gender or ethnicity and reflect persistent social and economic deprivation. Theories of social stratification […]
The course aims to examine the social determinants of health and health inequalities and to evaluate appropriate public policy responses. The course explores in detail current theories explaining the development […]
Focussing on science, this course introduces theoretical approaches, concepts and key empirical studies that form the canon and state-of-the-art in research and critical thinking in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. […]
Development has been primarily concerned with the economic transformation of countries considered to be less advanced than others. International development as we now know it emerged in the post-World War […]
Much of international development is approached in terms of what organizations can do to help people living in precarious and impoverished circumstances. From development theories and policies to organizational forms […]
This postgraduate seminar is taught in conjunction with the Sociology Honours course of the same name, with which it shares a parallel structure of weekly topics and readings. The course […]
The objective of the course is to provide postgraduate students with an advanced understanding of major contemporary debates and key works in the social anthropology of Latin America. The course […]
A survey of major contemporary debates and key works in the social anthropology of Latin America. The course will have a particular focus on the different ways in which life […]
This course examines some of the ways in which people in different societies conceptualise and live out kinship and relatedness. It shows how notions of relatedness are linked to ideas […]
This course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of important contemporary debates in the study of South Asian public culture. Introducing key themes through critical and current ethnographic […]
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