Sociology/English Language & Linguistics MA (Hons)

**Sociology** studies the ways that people organise their lives together, the constraints within which they do so, the patterns of their social behaviour, and the causes and consequences of social inequalities.<br/><br/>One of the distinctive features of our Sociology programme, commended by external examiners and by our graduates, is the combination of sociological, criminological and anthropological perspectives which we provide.<br/><br/>**English Language and Linguistics** combines the study of the structure and meaning of the English language, past and present, to see what all this tells us about our culture, our society and ourselves.<br/><br/>Over 50 years, we created the world-leading Historical Thesaurus of English, a unique resource charting the semantic development of the huge and varied vocabulary of English.<br/><br/>You will also have access to dedicated laboratories for analysing spoken and written language.