Skip to main content
What types of page to search?

Popular pages: Undergraduate Postgraduate PhD Accommodation Research International students

Alternatively use our A-Z index.

Module Details

The information contained in this module specification was correct at the time of publication but may be subject to change, either during the session because of unforeseen circumstances, or following review of the module at the end of the session. Queries about the module should be directed to the member of staff with responsibility for the module.
Title Social Change and Social Policy in Contemporary Society 1
Code SOCI102
Coordinator Dr D Tepe-Belfrage
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
D.Tepe-Belfrage@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2025-26 Level 4 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

- Encourages you to think about history in sociological terms, particularly about the ways in which an understanding of the past can help to illuminate the present.

- Provides you with an appreciation of continuity and change in social life in Britain, with an emphasis, inter alia, on politics, social policy, the economy, family life, and social and cultural relations.

- Provides you with an understanding of how different social scientists have studied, described and explained these processes of continuity and change in various areas of social life.

- Provides you with a way of putting wider processes of continuity and change in social, cultural, political and historical context.

- Provides you with a foundation of theories, concepts and knowledge for study at the second and third years.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Describe processes of social continuity and change over time in various areas of social life from a sociological perspective.

(LO2) Critically analyses what we gain by investigating the links between the present and the past.

(LO3) Apply and evaluate sociological theories and concepts in relation to various conceptual, methodological and empirical issues surrounding the question of history and the analysis of social change in various areas of social life.

(S1) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Listening skills

(S2) Time and project management - Personal organisation

(S3) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis -ET

(S4) Research skills - All Information skills

Syllabus
 

The module covers continuity and change in British social life over the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Topics include:

Politics, economics , the family, social and cultural relations and the role of social policy in shaping change. Supports the transition to modules in the second year with knowledge and understanding of key events and debates in social, political and economic life.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Yes
Notes: Lectures take place weekly.

Teaching Method 2 - Seminar
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Yes
Notes: Seminars also take place weekly, beginning in week two, and follow on directly from the lectures, providing opportunities for questions and discussion connected to lecture themes, the weekly readings and assessments.

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 11

 10

         21
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 129
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
The student will be answering a choice of two questions. One question will have to address the first more historical section of the module while the other will have to address the later more topical se  120    100       
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             

Recommended Texts
Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.