What do Sociology and Anthropology Majors Learn About?

SA students learn how to do things like:

• Identify connections between a society's culture and its economy, politics and geography
• Explain important differences in the life experiences of people across a society, and the various perspectives that different people can bring to a situation
• Explain individual and societal facets of social issues like drug use, unemployment, and racism
• Discuss how individual lives are influenced by things like government actions, the design of educational systems, or different types of housing availability
• Identify how existing and potential social policy can impact people and societies
• Identify ways that inequality – within countries and across the globe – is maintained, increased or reduced
• Discuss basic ways of thinking about social life
• Discuss and conduct research using qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Analyze how societies and cultures work with the kind of depth and skill that comes from rigorous training

In Anthropology, you’ll specialize in gaining in-depth understanding of cultures and groups near and far, and learn to identify the obvious and the subtle forces of power within them.

In Sociology, you’ll look behind the surface of groups and societies to understand how they work, and learn about how individuals’ experiences and choices are related to the societies they live in.