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About the Program

Crime, inequality, healthcare, politics, families, gender, race and ethnicity, education, work, and social change-today’s sociologists study all these topics. Using scientific methods to insure accuracy, sociologists focus on the causes and consequences of social interaction. Through a combination of classroom study and field work, Drew’s sociology program applies theory and research to real world problems.

Through a rich array of courses, sociology majors and minors come to understand the connections between their everyday lives, the larger social structures of various societies and the broad global changes that characterize our times.

Faculty

• Professors: Roxanne Friedenfels (chair), Jonathan Reader
• Associate Professors: Caitlin Killian, Kesha Moore, Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom
• Assistant Professors: Christopher Andrews, Scott Bonn

Programs

• Sociology Major

• Sociology Minor

Courses

• SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 107 - Identity and Difference
• SOC 201 - Contemporary Social Problems
• SOC 202 - Sociology of Inequality
• SOC 206 - Sociology of Religion
• SOC 210 - Sociological Research Methods
• SOC 217 - The Sociology of Management
• SOC 225 - Sociology of Gender
• SOC 226 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 227 - Sociology of Families
• SOC 229 - The Sociology of Aging
• SOC 234 - Introduction to Social Welfare
• SOC 242 - Sociology of Deviant Behavior
• SOC 249 - Sociology of Work
• SOC 250 - Sociology of Childhood and Youth
• SOC 251 - Happiness in Contemporary Society
• SOC 252 - Garbage:Sociological Studies of Trash
• SOC 253 - The Individual in Society
• SOC 290 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology
• SOC 291 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology: US Topics
• SOC 292 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology: International Topics
• SOC 294 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology: Interdisciplinary Topics
• SOC 297 - Comparative Fundamentalism
• SOC 300 - Independent Study in Sociology
• SOC 302 - Urban Sociology
• SOC 303 - Social Change
• SOC 304 - Sociology of Immigration
• SOC 307 - Criminology
• SOC 308 - Sociology of Population
• SOC 309 - Sociology of Mass Communications
• SOC 311 - Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOC 314 - Engendering Prison
• SOC 315 - Political Sociology
• SOC 316 - Sociology of National Development
• SOC 318 - Sociology of Education
• SOC 320 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
• SOC 323 - Supervised Sociological Field Study
• SOC 325 - Classical Sociological Theory
• SOC 326 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
• SOC 330 - Theories of Collective Action and Social Movements
• SOC 385 - Independent Research/ Off-Campus Programs
• SOC 391 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology: US Topics
• SOC 392 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology: International Topics
• SOC 394 - Contemporary Issues in Sociology: Interdisciplinary International Topics
• SOC 400 - Senior Seminar in Sociology
• SOC 410 - Specialized Honors I
• SOC 411 - Specialized Honors II

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