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.