Student will be acquainted with the basic concepts of sociology and introduced to the sociological perspective. Various versions of the sociological perspective will be studied. This is an approved General Education Course.
Sociology is the study of group life.
It is about how we as individuals create and are created by the social structures in which we are embedded. Sociology excites different reactions. It bores some, excites others. Sociology has frightened government regimes on the right and left who have banned sociology from their universities. As sociologists though, we use sociology as a means to step outside of ourselves and looking at how the social world works.