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. We do this so that we can view the social world from our viewpoint of others within the context our own personal experience. In the Spring 1997 course, we have a chance to look at our social worlds through interaction by satellite between Chico and Japan.