Political ordering
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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand key social issues and debates in contemporary UK society, such as: how social and material lives are related; how our identities are made; and how societies are ordered and governed
- understand inequalities, difference and diversity in contemporary societies
- construct a simple social science argument using appropriate concepts; theories and evidence
- interpret and criticise different forms of evidence, both quantitative and qualitative
- read and understand information from tables, graphs, charts and diagrams.
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