Sociology

Examine how social structures, institutions, and group dynamics shape human behavior.

Use statistical software to analyze survey data, test hypotheses, and interpret social patterns.

Design surveys, interviews, and ethnographies to collect and analyze data about social life.

Analyze Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and modern theorists who explain how societies are structured.

Study how wealth, power, and status are distributed unequally across social classes.

Examine how racial categories are constructed and how racism shapes inequality in society.

Analyze how gender roles, identities, and power dynamics shape everyday life and institutions.

Analyze causes of crime — poverty, social bonds, opportunity — and how society responds.

Study cities — gentrification, segregation, poverty, immigration, and neighborhood change.

Examine how schools reproduce inequality and how factors like race and class affect achievement.

Study how family structures, marriage, parenting, and divorce vary across cultures and time.