BA Sociology and Anthropology

The disciplines of sociology and anthropology have many commonalities: both investigate the social world that we inhabit, both examine and explain how human behaviors relate to cultural context and social environment, and both study the social interactions of people, groups and entire societies. While traditionally anthropologists researched non-industrial societies and small communities using participant observation, the field has expanded its scope and now studies a variety of communities, including brokers on Wall Street, factory workers in Europe, indigenous groups in South America and tribal communities in the Sahara desert. Sociologists often utilize a different set of methodological tools, but also study both large and small-scale social processes.