The BSA Applied Sociology Group curriculum in applied sociology has been developed as a free resource for UK higher education institutions.<\/p>\n
Sociology is foundationally a subject that faces outward: toward a world of people and their social groups, organisations and institutions; toward the natural and built environment that people inhabit; toward the ideas, beliefs, values and norms that people use to constitute their social worlds on a day-to-day basis; and toward the processes of power and resistance that mark out both divisions, stabilities and continual change within society.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>In the US and some other countries, sociologists are regularly making use of their specialist knowledge to address not only the big problems that face society, but also the daily issues that need addressing at work, at home or in the community.\u00a0 There they call this work \u2018clinical sociology\u2019.\u00a0 Here in the UK, we are calling it \u2018applied sociology\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n We are launching this curriculum in applied sociology because we consider that sociologists have the concepts, the theories and detailed knowledge of organisations and human interactions to both explain and improve many everyday situations, from the gender pay gap to the effects of climate change on well-being and health.<\/p>\n