UCP Sociology

Global South and the Sociological Imagination

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Most sociology textbooks are written from a Western perspective. This module challenges that. You'll be introduced to thinkers and traditions from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Indigenous communities, perspectives that fundamentally reshape how we understand society, power, and knowledge.
Expand your sociological imagination beyond its Eurocentric limits and engage with scholarship that is vibrant, urgent, and often missing from mainstream courses. Sociology, the way it should be taught.

Sociology of Social Work and Social Care

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Behind every care decision is a web of policy, power, and social inequality. This module connects sociological thinking to the real world of social work and care, helping you understand not just what practitioners do, but why the system looks the way it does, and how it could be different.
You'll engage critically with questions of inequality, ethics, risk, and social justice, and develop an informed perspective on the challenges facing helping professions today. Essential for anyone interested in a career in social care, policy, or community support.

Feminist Theory and Activism: From the First Wave to the Digital Age

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

From the Suffragettes to intersectional feminism to online movements, feminist theory has never stopped evolving, and neither has its impact. In this module, you'll trace over a century of feminist thought, tackle the big debates, and explore how feminism continues to reshape politics, culture, and everyday life.
You'll engage with a wide range of perspectives, liberal, radical, Black, q***r, global, and examine how feminism addresses everything from pay-equity and reproductive rights to gender-based violence and digital activism. Vital, empowering, and brilliantly relevant.

Activism and Social Change

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

From the Suffragettes to , social movements have always driven history. But what actually makes change happen? Who organises, what works, and how has social media transformed protest and resistance in the 21st century?
This module traces activism from the 20th century to the present, applying critical theory to everything from grassroots campaigns to global movements. If you've ever wanted to understand how the world changes, and how to be part of that, this is the module for you.

Research for Social Change: Methods and Practice

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Want to actually make a difference? This module teaches you how. From interviews and focus groups to survey design and data analysis, you'll build real research skills, and put them to work on a live social issue right here in Peterborough.
This isn't just theory. You'll carry out a genuine mini research project, developing the practical, critical, and professional skills that make sociology graduates stand out in careers across research, policy, and the public sector.

Popular Culture, Media and Society

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Reality TV. Celebrity culture. TikTok. Blockbusters. Culture isn't just entertainment, it's where power operates, identities are shaped, and inequalities are reinforced or challenged. In this module, you get the tools to analyse what's really going on in the content you consume every day.
Covering everything from film and comedy to consumer culture and digital media, you'll develop sharp critical thinking and strong written communication skills. See the media differently, and you'll never scroll the same way again.

Sociology of The City

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Cities are where history, power, and everyday life collide. From gentrification and housing inequality to smart cities and climate resilience, this module takes urban life apart and asks what it reveals about the world we're building.
You'll develop digital skills through mapping and data analysis, explore questions of environmental justice, and think critically about who cities are actually built for. Fascinating, current, and packed with career-ready skills in planning, policy, and community development.

People, Work & Learning: Rethinking Organisations & Opportunity

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Why does your postcode affect your chances of a good job? How do schools and workplaces reinforce inequality, often without meaning to? This module connects education, work, and social structure to real life, and asks what genuinely equal opportunity would actually require.
You'll explore how class, gender, race, and other inequalities shape everyday experiences of learning and labour , and come away with both the theory and the practical skills to make sense of it all.

Justice, Harm and the Good Society

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Crime statistics don't tell the whole story. What about the harm caused by corporations, governments, and institutions, the kind that never makes it to court? This module asks: what counts as harm, and who decides?
Through real case studies and public controversies, you'll explore social harm beyond the headlines and start asking what a truly just and fair society would actually look like. Thought-provoking, timely, and essential.

Critical Social Theory

📚 BA (Hons) Sociology | BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies

Who gets to decide what counts as knowledge? This module takes sociology's most influential thinkers, from Weber to Foucault, and asks the hard questions: whose voices built this discipline, and whose were written out?
You'll engage with postcolonial and decolonial approaches that broaden sociology's horizons and expose the global dimensions of power. Build the theoretical toolkit you need to analyse the world , critically, confidently, and with fresh eyes.