Sociology and Criminology BA

Are you interested in how people organize and move within social life Would you like to learn more about social justice and policy, cultures and subcultures, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, work and leisure When you study Sociology you develop a quality of mind a sociological imagination that allows you to think about the world around you in new ways. The Sociology program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offers a major, a minor, and five joint majors. You can start this program at the Surrey campus. These disciplines have some common methods and theoretical concerns: the relation between such variables as class, gender, ethnicity and crime; the social construction of deviance; the law as a social phenomenon; and the general social, political, and economic frameworks of society that condition the nature and perception of social problems. This program is for those who share these concerns. Students interested in a joint program in criminology and sociology should contact both department advisors.