Bachelor's in Sociology

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"Sociology is a way of understanding the social world around us. Sociologists study the behavior of people as members of groups rather than as individuals, and they also study how individuals are shaped by their social environments. As such, they examine the processes through which we as people express our social being: cooperation, exchange, conflict, domination, morality, dependence, violence, crime, social control, and symbolism. Sociology also examines the phenomena to which these processes give rise: social networks, small groups, families, subcultures, professional affiliations, social classes, gender relations, structures of race and ethnicity, bureaucracies, social movements, the state, religion, and popular and “high” culture. Students concerned with solving social problems and engaging in community service, or generally working in organizational contexts, find that the sociology curriculum is especially relevant to their interests."