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Social Change MSc

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Course description

Mandatory Courses

Social Capital and Social Change

Methodology and Research Design (MARD)

Comparative Citizen Politics

Introduction to Quantitative Methods

Applying Quantitative Methods

Religious and Ethnic Change

Qualitative Research Methods

This degree will provide both quantitative and qualitative training.  It is aimed at those wishing to study the links between new globalising forces (eg modernization; democratization) and other changes in the social and political character of societies.

Each masters student conducts a research dissertation project.  These projects cover the comparative analysis of gradual social change in different countries or regions. 

Please see  http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/socialchange/postgraduate/index.html for further information.

Course unit details

Further information is available via the Programme Handbook

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