A-levels/GCSEs anyone?

[JHyde]

It essentially analyses social structures and institutions, using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Personally, I find the methodology used by and large to be too broad, and I think better information can be extrapolated through historical, anthropological or psychological studies. It can be helpful if you filter it through a particular discipline. I did a wonderful course after I'd given up on it as a subject (but it was that or more Latin, and Latin was infinitely more work with people I didn't like, and I didn't really want to get to the point where I could read Latin and not have to translate it simultaneously, in other words, converse in it) called sociology and justice. Looking at the legal system and justice through the lens of sociology was really helpful and appropriate, because many sociological writers were preoccupied with the place of that third branch of government as it exists in many western societies.

Genuinely interesting, but I wouldn't recommend it as a discipline.