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foundation areas
Stream: The Universe of Human Behavior |
Why Sociology?
Career choices
Course Aim
Course Content
Major & Minor
Why Study Sociology?
As a discipline, Sociology involves the description and explanation of social structures and processes. These range from two-person interactions to relations between large social institutions, such as politics and the economy, to relations between nations. Sociology also ranges across time and serves as a useful complement to history. |
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Changes in the social arrangements that people create are of special interest to the sociologist for a number of reasons.
First, Sociology increases understanding of ourselves and society by providing us with concepts that describes and explains our social creations and how they influence us. We learn who we are and why and how we are similar to and different from people with different social arrangements.
Secondly, exposure to Sociology opens our minds, prompts us to review the ‘taken-for-granted’, and encourages us to look at alternatives. |
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Psychology | Anthropology / Sociology |
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