SOCIAL POLICY|PUBLIC POLICY|INTERNATIONAL POLICY|GLOBALISATION|COMPARATIVE RESEARCH

This course introduces students to the study of social policy in comparative perspective. It begins by laying out a range of methods and theoretical approaches...

This course introduces students to the study of social policy in comparative perspective. It begins by laying out a range of methods and theoretical approaches used for comparative policy analysis, encouraging a critical appreciation of the advantages and challenges of comparisons in policy analyses. It then shifts to consider various key actors and institutions that shape social policy in diverse contexts, before concluding with a closer examination of several policy areas of international and global significance, including poverty, conflict, and migration. This course takes an explicitly international approach to the study of comparative social policy, drawing on conceptual approaches and illustrative policy examples that cut across traditional boundaries between the Global North and South.

This undergraduate module is designed to introduce students to sociological thought and to encourage them to use their sociological imagination to see how...

This undergraduate module is designed to introduce students to sociological thought and to encourage them to use their sociological imagination to see how aspects of their everyday life are linked to ongoing process of social organisation and coordination. The themes covered in this course will highlight the interplay between the individual and society, how society is both stable and changing, the causes and consequences of social inequality, and the social construction of human life. Understanding sociology will make vivid to the student the social basis of everyday life, this course will also develop their critical thinking by revealing the social structures and processes that shape diverse forms of human life.

EXPERIMENATAL METHODS|PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING|REGRESSION|INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES|DATA ANALYSIS