This document provides information about the online registration process for level 2 modules for single honours and dual honours students in the Department of Sociological Studies for the 2018-19 academic year. It outlines the registration period from April 30th to May 18th and notes that module choices will be approved or rejected within 48 hours. The document then provides descriptions of 14 level 2 modules offered, including information on lecture times, assessments, and whether they are core or optional modules for specific programmes.

1. Department of Sociological Studies, 2018
Online Registration Process for
Single and Dual Honours
Students within the Department
of Sociological Studies: Level 2
2018-19
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2. 30 April – 18 May
30 April – 18 May
July onwards
September – October
Student enters
modules via
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Department
approves/rejects
module choices
Student
Registration
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3.  The following slides list the core and optional modules at Level 2 - which will
vary according to programme - so please use the Module Choice Form you were
provided with.
 All modules are worth 20 credits. You must ensure that you sign up for 120
credits in line with your Programme Regulations. Cores will automatically
appear. You should ensure that the credits are equally weighted - 60
credits per semester. DUAL students must take 60 credits with each
Department. – and ensure credits are equally weighted – 60 credits per
semester. Each department provides information on their modules.
 Module choices will be approved or rejected within 48 hours of submitting
them. Regularly check your online registration.
 Cores on one programme can also be taken as optional modules on another
programme - with the exception of: SCS2019 Advancing with Digital Methods; SCS2000 DoingQuantitative
Sociological Research; & SCS2020 Doing Qualitative Sociological Research; – which are closed (restricted or have pre-
requisites).

4. ModuleTitle Module
Code
Sem
SociologicalTheory & Analysis SCS2001 1
Sociology of the Family SCS2006 1
Sociology of the Media SCS2016 1
Advancing with Digital Methods SCS2019 1
Crime, Justice and Social Policy SCS2021 1
Dynamics of Social Change & Policy SCS2022 1
Doing Quantitative Sociological Research
Doing Qualitative Sociological Research
SCS2000
SCS2020
1
2

5. ModuleTitle Module Code Sem
Race, Immigration and Multiculturalism SCS2005 2
Sociology of Crime and Deviance SCS2009 2
Sociology ofWork SCS2017 2
Social Problems: Policy and Practice SCS2023 2
Digital Media and Social Change SCS2024 2

6. Module descriptors
 This module aims to provide students with
a critical understanding of the importance
and use of modern and contemporary
social theory, and to explore its relevance
to key themes and issues in contemporary
society.
Core for
 Sociology (SCSU01),
 Sociology with Criminology (SCSU07)
 Sociology with Social Policy (SCSU08)
 English Language and Sociology (ELLU04),
 History and Sociology (HSTU17),
 Social and PoliticalStudies (POLU02)
 Sociology and Business Management (SCSU04)
Available as an option for our other single honours and duals
Sociological
Theory &
Analysis
[SCS2001]
•Semester One
•Lectures:
Thurs 11.00-12.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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7. Module descriptors
 Using a sociological and anthropological
perspective this module seeks to
problematise the concept of ‘family’ as a
natural and universal phenomenon. It
underscores the need to explore the
notion of the family as a social and
historical construction and will achieve
that by examining the diversity of family
life in countries around the world.
Sociology of
the Family
[SCS2006]
•Semester One
•Lectures:
Tues 11.00-12.00
Tues 12.00-13.00
Mode of assessment:
Essay and Briefing Note
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8. Module descriptors
 This module critically explores the
development of media studies. It
incorporates classical and contemporary
theorists, grounding their analyses in a
range of empirical areas of investigation.
It explores key debates about media
ownership, media effects and
representation.
Core for
 Digital Media and Society (SCSU10)
Sociology of
the Media
[SCS2016]
•Semester One
•Lectures:
Thurs 10.00-11.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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9. Module descriptors
 This module will review the historical
development of a range of theoretical
approaches to the study of crime and
deviancy, consider how sociologists have
studied the primary institutions of social
control such as the police, courts and
prisons, and consider the contribution of
the sociology of crime and deviance to
issues of contemporary significance.
Core for
 Digital Media and Society (SCSU10)
(restricted – it has pre-requisites of digital methods modules in year one)
Advancing with
Digital
Methods
[SCS2019]
•Semester One
•Workshop:
Wednesday 10.00-12.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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10. Module descriptors
 This unit examines the variety of responses to
crime that encompass the use of both crime policy
and social policy.Crime policy responses
encompass the use of the role of the police, courts
and prisons.Alongside this is the social policy
approach which includes health, housing,
education, employment, youth and family as a
means of crime reduction. Theories of crime and
the role of criminologists in policy making; and the
criminalisation of social policy as an unintended
outcome, are considered.
Core for
 Social Policy with Criminology (SCSU07))
Available as an option for our other single honours and duals
Crime, Justice
and Social
Policy
[SCS2021]
•Semester One
•Lectures:
Friday 11.00-13.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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11. Module descriptors
 The unit provides a 'sociological perspective' on
contemporary social and economic
transformations in the UK and globally, with
emphasis on the challenges posed for social policy
theory and practice, as well as the potential to
imagine alternative social policy scenarios. Issues
considered include: globalisation, neoliberalism,
falling fertility and ageing societies, precarious
labour markets and migration and mobility.
Core for
▪ Sociology and Social Policy (SCSU02),
▪ Sociology with Social Policy (SCSU08)
Available as an option for our other single honours and duals
Dynamics of
Social Change
& Policy
[SCS2022]
•Semester One
•Lectures:
Mon 11.00-13.00
•Mode of assessment:
Exam & Presentation
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12. Module descriptors
 These (closed/restricted) modules provide
an introduction to some of the most
widely used quantitative and qualitative
methods in social research. The primary
aim of the modules is to develop a
working knowledge of research issues to
enable students to read and comprehend
both quantitative and qualitative research
articles.
 Core and restricted to: SCSU01, SCSU02,
SCSU07, SCSU08. These modules are closed and
NOT available as options apart from to SMI or to
SCSU10.
Doing Quantitative
Sociological
Research [SCS2000]
•Semester One
•Lectures:Tues 14.00-1600
Mode of assessment:
Poster and Project
Doing Qualitative
Sociological
Research [SCS2020]
•SemesterTwo
•Lectures:Tues 14.00-16.00
Mode of assessment:
Proposal,Website, Overview
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13. Module descriptors
 The module examines how ideas about
race help to shape and determine social
and political relations and considers the
part played by ideas about race in forming
notions of self and other at the micro and
macro levels. It also explores the role of
race as a major source of social divisions
and aims to show the significance of
racism to the reproduction of structural
inequalities.
Race,
Immigration &
Multiculturalism
[SCS2005]
•SemesterTwo
•Lectures:
Wed 12.00-13.00
Thurs 10.00-11.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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14. Module descriptors
 This module will review the historical
development of a range of theoretical
approaches to the study of crime and
deviancy, consider how sociologists have
studied the primary institutions of social
control such as the police, courts and
prisons, and consider the contribution of
the sociology of crime and deviance to
issues of contemporary significance.
Core for
 Sociology with Criminology (SCSU07)
Sociology of
Crime and
Deviance
[SCS2009]
•SemesterTwo
•Lectures:
Fri 10.00-12.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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15. Module descriptors
 The module explores the different approaches to
understanding work and labour in sociology. The
course will cover the classical approaches of Marx,
Weber and Durkheim to more contemporary
theories (including debates aroundTaylorism,
Fordism, flexibility, skills, control in the workplace,
trade unionism and labour process theory). The
influence of class, race, age and gender in the
world of work will be dealt with along with
emerging issues relating to globalisation and new
technology.
Sociology of
Work
[SCS2017]
•SemesterTwo
•Lectures:
Fri 13.00 – 15.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Exam
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16. Module descriptors
 This team taught unit adopts a `sociological
approach to social policy‘. It explores key concepts
and themes in social policy and practice such as
inequality, justice and fairness; individual versus
collective responsibility; and welfare versus social
control. The unit aims to equip students with the
necessary critical perspective and skills to
understand and explore social problems.
Core for
 Social Policy and Sociology (SCSU02),
 Sociology withSocial Policy (SCSU08)
Available as an option for our other single honours and duals
Social
Problems:
Policy and
Practice
[SCS2023]
•SemesterTwo
•Lectures:
Tues 10.00-12.00
•Mode of assessment:
Report & Exam
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17. Module descriptors
 This unit introduces theories and debates
used to look at the role of digital media
(from email to social media) in protest and
activism from the 1990s onwards. The
module will specifically focus on
contemporary cases of protest and
activism. It will develop an empirical
explorative analysis of the use and role of
social media likeTwitter and Facebook in
campaigns aimed at social change.
Core for
 Digital Media and Society SCSU10)
Digital Media
and Social
Change
[SCS2024]
•SemesterTwo
•Lectures:
Monday 11.00- 12.00
•Mode of assessment:
Essay & Project
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18. For general queries:
 The Enquiry Desk is open daily in Elmfield from
10.00am to 2.00 pm, during semester.
 Contact: Maureen Howard (Teaching Support
Manager) m.j.howard@sheffield.ac.uk
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided– but
University modules and timetabling are continually reviewed and revised, and thus
subject to change. Days andTimes are subject to change.