Sociology/History
Sociology and history is a combination that brings together two disciplines with complementary approaches to understanding human social life. History examines change and continuity in societies through time, working with evidence to construct accounts of past events and their significance. Sociology examines the structures, institutions and forces that shape social life in the present, asking how inequality, culture, power and social organisation determine human experience.
Studied together, they allow you to understand both how social structures have developed historically and how they function in the contemporary world, producing a richer and more complete analysis than either discipline provides alone.
At the University of Glasgow, this four-year full-time programme includes a year abroad and carries a typical entry tariff of 200 UCAS points. You will engage with Glasgow's wide-ranging history programme, spanning medieval to modern periods and drawing on research expertise in Scottish, British, European, US and global history, slavery studies, gender history and war studies. In the sociology component, you will develop a rigorous grounding in sociological theory, research methods and the analysis of contemporary social issues.
The combination encourages you to draw connections across historical and sociological explanations, developing an integrated understanding of how societies have changed and are changing.
Graduates from sociology and history programmes pursue careers in academia, education, the civil service, journalism, policy research, social work, the voluntary sector and cultural institutions. The combination of rigorous historical analysis and sociological theory is valued in organisations that require both a sense of how we arrived at the present and a conceptual framework for understanding it. Many graduates go on to postgraduate study in sociology, history, social policy or related fields, and the degree provides excellent preparation for both academic careers and roles in the applied social sciences.