Sociology - Lane College

Sociology from Lane College is a Campus Bachelor Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. Objectives 1. To acquaint the student with the major sociological concepts, theories, perspectives, methods, and knowledge, including culture, social structure, interaction, and change. 2. To make the student aware that a person is the product of the social environment; and that his/her attitudes, social makeup, and behavior are shaped, guided, and constrained by social norms, social structure, culture, and other social factors. 3. To foster the student???s sociological imagination and understanding of the relationship between an individual and the wider society, including past and present social events, and the fact that a person???s success is in part influenced by his/her understanding of this relationship. 4. To provide the student an understanding of group behavior and of the social forces operating in society, including the structures, processes, and functions or dysfunctions of social organizations and institutions. 5. To introduce the major social problems in the American society; to critically examine and analyze contemporary social issues; while realizing that perspectives shape explanations or results reached. 6. To engender the student???s awareness that the United States is a multicultural nation and that the world has become a small village: A person???s life is affected not only by what is happening within his/her state/country, but also by events taking place elsewhere on the planet. 7. To further develop the student???s criticalthinking ability, which enables him/her to draw inferences from theories and data, recognize unstated assumptions, deduce conclusions from the available information, interpret and weigh evidence as to whether the conclusions drawn are correct, evaluate the strengths of comparable arguments regarding the specific issue at hand, apply sociological knowledge to new problems, read and interpret tables of data and graphs, and recognize the strengths and limitations of both quantitative and qualitative data. 8. To inspire the student to read and comprehend social research, and conduct his/her own research projects. 9. To prepare the student for entry into graduate and professional schools/programs, or for careers in social service areas. View more details on Lane College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.