Anthropology and Sociology BA (Hons) – (B.A.)

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In your first year you are acquainted with some of the main theories within social anthropology and its sub-fields - political anthropology, economic anthropology, and kinship. You are also introduced to the role of ethnography, and will be given a foundation in anthropological methodological practice. For the sociology element you look at the subject's key texts and thinkers, and get introduced to how sociology has developed, and its distinguishing features.

In year two you consider the anthropology of religion, morals and symbolism, and explore interactions between current changing economic and political structures. A link course taught jointly by the departments familiarises you with methodological and philosophical issues in sociology and anthropology. In addition, central issues in sociological analysis will be covered, as will the formation of the modern world, encompassing nationalism, colonialism, and fascism. You also take a sociology option - current options cover politics, culture and society; nationalism, fundamentalism and cosmopolitanism; sociology of literature and biography; sexuality; leisure, culture and society; the body.

You take a compulsory link course in the third year which examines how the world has changed since classical sociological theory was produced. In addition, you choose further anthropology and sociology options. The wide range of anthropology courses enables you to investigate areas including: anthropological understandings of human-environment relations; urban anthropology; and psychological perspectives in anthropology. Sociology options currently include: childhood matters; citizenship and human rights; vision, truth and knowledge; gender; visual explorations of the social world. You can also complete a dissertation on a topic of your choice, with personal tutorial supervision.