Sociology, BS (43-756)

Major, Bachelor of Science Degree

The graduate with a Bachelor of Science 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, BS (43-756) (4 Year Guide)