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Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge is made up of Politics, Sociology and Psychology

Contents 1 Part I 1.1 Politics 1.2 Sociology 1.3 Psychology 2 Part II

Part I

Part 1 is made up of Sociology, Politics, Psychology and a choice from a list of 6 papers, which for 2008 entry will be:

• Development of Human Societies
• Humans in biological perspective
• Human societies: the comparative perspective
• Introduction to computer science
• British Economic History
• Language, communication and literacy

There is a great deal of synoptic content between the papers, in particular Weber, Durkheim and Marx come up in 3 papers.

Politics

Politics is the study of a number of great thinkers and their views, called the Analysis of Modern Politics. Its not however very modern with the majority of thinkers being quite old! However many of their lessons can be applied to today - Hobbes, Siyes, Constant, Weber, the authors of the federalist papers, de Tocqueville, and Schumpeter. Marx, Ghandi, Kant Fukuyama and Schmitt are also studied.

Sociology

The first term is designed to look at three of the founders of Sociology - Marx, Weber, Durkehim and their ideas. The second term builds on these ideas to look at some of the aspects of modern society - Globalisation,

Psychology

Part II