Department of Sociology

Learning Goals

• Understanding social reality and society.
• Research and statistical skills for evaluating and gathering evidence about social life and social relations.
• Knowledge about basic concepts such as culture, socialization, stratification, institutions, self deviance, and so forth.
• Knowledge about how the self develops sociologically rather than psychologically.
• Understanding how institutions like the family, education, and the economy are interrelated.
• Understanding the significance of variations by race, social class, gender, and age.
• Ability to think critically about social events and to present opposing viewpoints and alternative hypotheses on various social issues.

Ver. February 28, 2013

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