With Massey’s Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Sociology) you can build on your undergraduate interests What is it like? Massey is ranked in the world’s top 200 universities for sociology by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranking. Sociology is about understanding and describing our local society and its global setting. Sociologists are interested in almost all aspects of the social world and in your Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Sociology) you’ll consider questions such as: 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? With a Massey Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Sociology) you’ll ask challenging questions about how power structures function in the social world. You’ll study culture, ethnicity, class, inequality, gender, mass media, politics, environment, social change and individual and group interactions.

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