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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Students who graduate with a BA in Sociology have found
employment in a wide array of occupations within the fields of
education, media, politics, local government, central government,
community work, iwi organisations, health, social services and
the not-for-profit sector. A Bachelor’s degree is a good general
university qualification that will help you get a job in many
differentSUPPORT
occupational
sectors.
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SOCIOLOGY PROGRAMME
SCHOOL OF PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
POSTGRADUATE STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY
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Postgraduate study will give you the opportunity to deepen your
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knowledge of sociology. The Sociology Programme offers the
following postgraduate degrees:
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Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Sociology):
four, 30 credit, single semester papers.
BA Hons: four, 30 credit, single semester papers, including a
supervised research report.
Master of Arts: two or three, 30 credit, single semester
papers, plus a thesis to the value of either 90 or 120 credits.
PhD: A research only degree comprising a thesis to the value
of 360 credits.
CONTACT
For more information on undergraduate or postgraduate study
contact:
Dr Warwick Tie
Coordinator, Sociology Programme
School of People, Environment and Planning
Massey University, Albany Campus
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore Auckland 0745
New Zealand
Email:[email protected]
Phone: (09) 414 0800 ext 43477
Full details about papers in our undergraduate or
postgraduate disciplines can be found at:
http://pep.massey.ac.nz
WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?
“Sociology acts as a meddlesome and often irritating stranger. It
disturbs the comfortingly quiet way of life by asking questions
no one among the ‘locals remembers being asked, let alone
answered. Such questions make evident things into puzzles: they
defamiliarize the familiar” (Zygmunt Bauman, 1990).
Sociology seeks to understand and describe our own local
society and the wider global setting in which it exists.
Sociologists ask questions like:
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How is society structured?
How is society changing?
What divides or unites social groups?
What causes the inequalities we see in society?
How does power operate?
What forces impact on our personal and cultural identities?
In coming to understand these issues sociologists draw on both
theory and research. They bring a critical eye to the things that
are usually taken for granted.
Staff in the Sociology Programme are active researchers
working on a range of projects including agri-food, sustainability
in the built environment, death and dying, animals, social values,
urban ecology, family life, and cultural identity politics.
POSSIBLE PROGRAMME OF STUDY
To complete a BA you will need 360 credits (ie 24 papers. A
major in Sociology consists of 135 credits in Sociology, including
176.101 Introductory Sociology; 30 credits at 200 level (including
176.206 Understanding Social Life); and 60 credits at 300 level
(including 176.301 The Sociological Project). A further two
Sociology papers may be taken at any level.
Your course of full-time study might look like this:
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YEAR 2
YEAR 3
176.101 Introductory 176.206
Sociology
Understanding
Social Life
176.301
The Sociological
Project
176.102
New Zealand
Society
176.205
Animals and
Human Society
176.302
Advanced Social
Research
230.121
Future State: NZ in
the 21st Century
176.222
Cities in the
21st Century
176.322
The World at Work
Eg. 179.102
Politics & Public
Policy in NZ
Albany: 176.207
176.308
Family, Intimacy and Sociology of
Domestic Life
Environment
Eg. 145.111
Eg. 146.208
Society, Environment Political
and Place
Anthropology
176.318
Sociology of
Death and Dying
Eg. 200.161
Introduction to
Politics
Eg. 146.214
The Politics of
Culture
Eg.145.318
Geopolitics
Eg. 146.101 Intro
Social Anthropology
Eg. 150.201
Treaty of Waitangi
Eg.148.332
Politics of Protest
Eg. 146.102
Eg.146.210
Endangered Cultures Ritual and Belief
Eg.200.315
Contemporary
Political Theory
You must take each of these papers.
You must take at least 4 of these papers
(but may take more, or even all of them).
These are examples of your elective papers.
NB.A full list of papers available by distance mode or internally
at the Albany and Manawatu campuses is available from the
following url: http://pep.massey.ac.nz
WHAT SKILLS CAN
SOCIOLOGY GIVE YOU?
You will learn to think critically about the world in which
you live, and become accomplished in different ways of
systematically investigating social issues and other aspects
of society. More generally, you will learn to explore deeper
aspects of social issues that lie behind “common sense”
thinking, media representations and policy reforms. You will
learn how knowledge is generated and, using a range of research
skills, how to find out about aspects of society yourself. These
are attributes that are extremely useful in a wide variety of
occupations and professions. Sociology is not a narrow specialty
that locks you into a limited career path. It is a broad area that
can lead to many possibilities.
In particular you can expect to learn some important academic
skills around writing well, understanding concepts, learning how
to read and understand research, and how to use the resources
of the library and internet to find out about sociology and the
world. Many of these, and other skills such as information skills,
critical evaluation, and research skills, are highly regarded by
employers.