Sociology, BA (42-755)

Major, Bachelor of Arts Degree

The graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology will use the knowledge and skills obtained in the program to:

• Develop an awareness of personal assumptions, as well as basic American assumptions in analyzing positions on social issues.
• Discern the basic components of culture including group diversity, socialization, identity, and cultural symbols.
• Delineate the basic process and consequences of stratification across social categories including ethnicity, race, social class, gender, and societies.
• Recognize how social institutions operate organizationally within society and how they vary over time and space.
• Create reasonable linkages between empirical evidence and theory utilizing both inductive and deductive forms of logic.
• Develop effective ways of communicating in professional contexts.
• Understand basic research procedures in accord with the scholarly practices of the discipline of Sociology including the utilization of research journals and their documentation, construction of a research document to report findings, and the proper citation of sources.
• Critically evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical views and everyday frameworks of understanding, recognizing the complexity and uncertainty that are always present.

Sociology, BA (42-755) (4 Year Guide)