BA Sociology and Anthropology

Sociology (SOCY), in particular, focuseson the analysis of human beings as members of societies including: social interaction among individuals, groups, and cultures; the institutions that constitute a society; and the processes that create and sustain social inequality. In addition, sociological analysis sharpens the understanding of various levels of social life, from interpersonal interactions (such as those found in families, small work groups, friendships, and casual encounters); through the organization and function of social institutions (such as the family, religions, education, politics, media, and medicine); to the structure and functioning of social systems as a whole (class structure, racial/ethnic relations, cultural ideology, and various legal processes).Anthropology (ANTH) asks what it means to be human in all places at all times. As such, the discipline has an international and comparative focus. In Anthropology, people are understood in terms of their biological and behavioral variation cross-culturally and through time. In particular, the ethnographic field method exposes students to lived realities in a range of contexts. While our program's primary focus is on Cultural Anthropology, students also have an opportunity to study in the other fields of Anthropology: Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and Linguistics. Anthropological analysis studies the dynamics of culture including kinship, religion, ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, migration, and inequality.