London School of Economics (LSE) • Sociology

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‘I want to suggest that work still provides structure and meaning in people’s lives however imperfectly this may occur’ (Strangleman 2007: 100). Discuss in relation to the 'end of work' thesis

Statistics in Society - Role of Statistics in Society - Source of Data - Quantitative Methods - Social Network Methods - Explanatory Methods - Big Data and the Digital Challenge - Crisis of Empirical Sociology

Is 'sexuality' natural? - First Class Honours

What does Foucault mean by “biopolitics of the population”? Give examples. - First Class Honours

Notes on Sociology of Work - Work as Identity (classical and contemporary theories) - Gendered Division of Labour - Emotional Labour - Work in the Post-Industrial Era - End of Work - Consumption as Identity

Notes on Sex, Gender and Sexuality - Relationship between Sex and Gender - Gender as a Social Construct (gender performativity, gender socialisation) - Sexuality (sexuality as an identity, biological/essentialist argument, social constructionism, symbolic interactionism)

Notes on Medical Sociology/Medicalisation - Definition of Medicalisation - Medical Social Control - Critiques of Medicalisation (e.g. disease mongering, individualisation of social problems) - Geneticisation

Notes on Class - Classical Approaches - Contemporary Approaches - Effects of Class - Contemporary Changes and Challenges - Intersectionality