BA Sociology

The undergraduate major in Sociology at UNCCH provides students with theoretical and methodological tools and substantive insights for understanding human social life and institutions. The Department s faculty is particularly strong in the areas of social inequality, marriage and family, the life course and aging, work and the economy, religion, formal organizations, sex and gender, social movements, population and human ecology, poverty and welfare, medical sociology, social networks, education, and political sociology. The emphases in courses range widely from the theoretical to the applied and incorporate a broad array of methodological approaches including historical, qualitative, and comparative, although the program s primary specialization is in quantitative analysis.