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Record: 1 How do students' accounts of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees? Ashwin, Paul [email protected] Abbas, Andrea McLean, Monica Higher Education. Feb2014, Vol. 67 Issue 2, p219-234. 16p. 4 Charts. Article *SOCIOLOGY students *RESEARCH *SOCIOLOGY education (Higher) *PHENOMENOGRAPHY *THEORY of knowledge *HIGHER education ATTITUDES Conceptions Knowledge Phenomenography Sociology Students In this article we examine how students' accounts of the discipline of sociology change over the course of their undergraduate degrees. Based on a phenomenographic analysis of 86 interviews with 32 sociology and criminology students over the course of their undergraduate degrees, we constituted five different ways of accounting for sociology. These ranged from describing sociology as a form of personal development focused on developing the students' opinion to describing sociology as a partial way of studying the relations between people and society. The majority of students expressed more inclusive accounts of sociology over the course of their degrees. However, some students' accounts suggested they had become disengaged with sociology. We argue that the differences in the ways that students were disengaged were not captured by our phenomenographic categories. In conclusion, we argue that our analysis illustrates the crucial role that students' relations to knowledge play in understanding the transformative nature of higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM

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AUTHOR] Copyright of Higher Education is the property of Springer Science & Business Media B.V. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) Department of Educational Research, Centre for Higher Education

Research and Evaluation, Lancaster University, County South Lancaster LA1 4YD UK Centre for Educational Research and Development, University of

Lincoln, Lincoln UK School of Education, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK

0018-1560 10.1007/s10734-013-9659-z 94379745 Academic Search Complete

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