Politics and Sociology with Placement Year

About this course

Politics and sociology together address the central questions of social and political life: who holds power, how it operates, how social structures shape individual experience and how societies change over time. Politics asks who has political power, why they have it and in whose interest they exercise it, examining political institutions, ideologies, movements and governance at local, national and international scales. Sociology provides the theoretical frameworks to understand how societies are organised, how inequalities of class, gender, race and age are produced and reproduced, and how institutions, norms and culture shape behaviour and possibility. At Brunel University London, this four-year full-time programme, which includes a placement year, combines high-level study in both subjects, developing your analytical skills across political science and sociological theory. You will e

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 20% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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