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The faculty of the FAU 社会学系 are committed to sociology as a critical scholarly endeavor in the service of humanity.  The faculty are diverse in their research and teaching, reflecting a discipline that contains multiple theoretical perspectives, 广泛的实质性领域, and a tradition of ongoing debate about the best way to ask and answer questions about the social world.   Our research interests range across the field:  welfare policy and rural poverty; global social movements; environmental struggles; food systems; outbreaks of 政治 violence; the social determinants of prejudices; the social construction of self and identity; healthy aging; interaction dynamics and emotional labor in 家庭 and 工作places; life course sociology from childhood to old age; social change, 消费主义, 以及每天的抵抗——甚至更多.

As part of our commitment to introducing as many 学生 as possible to the power of “the sociological imagination,” the department offers several courses in the university’s core curriculum.    In addition to an introductory survey of the discipline (“Sociological Perspectives,（公元1000年）, we offer a more specialized course that applies the sociological perspective to major social problems (SYG 2010).  Diversity, inequality and social change are the emphases of Global Society (SYP 2450).  

在戴维和博卡拉顿校区都有, the sociology major cultivates an integrated perspective on society that stresses the connection between the social, 经济, 政治, and personal aspects of life as well as between the local and the global.   Through courses as diverse as “Labor and Globalization” and “Self and Society,” the major offers 学生 a solid foundation in a broad range of fields within this rapidly-changing discipline.  

The major also builds essential critical thinking skills.  As the American Sociological Association advises 学生, “The 21st century labor market is fast-changing, 日益全球化, 和技术驱动的.  The jobs that you may 应用 for as a graduate may not even exist yet.   To navigate the 21st century means being able to keep up with the changing world.   随着社会的发展, you as a sociology major will have the tools to critically analyze the world and your place in it” (Sociology:  A 21st Century Major, 美国社会学协会.  此外，重要的是, an education in sociology prepares 学生 to be thoughtful, active and effective participants in shaping the course of the social world:  the study of social forces is the starting point for social change, 无论是本地的还是全球的.  It is one of the most solid and useful of the liberal arts majors, whether the student plans on continuing to graduate or professional school or going directly into the 工作force.

除了它的本科课程, the department offers a challenging MA that provides 学生 with a range of options for their plans of study.  在种族等话题的研讨会上, 移民, 性别, 全球化, 自我身份, 心理健康, 消费主义, 工作, 和家人, 学生 are invited to become participants in and contributors to contemporary debates and developments in the discipline.   Many of them hold graduate teaching assistantships that provide them with tuition and a stipend in exchange for their 工作 with the faculty who teach our undergraduate courses.   Our graduate program is a thriving intellectual community that invites new membership every term.

Talk to any of our faculty to learn more about our programs.  Our website has lots of information about our graduate and undergraduate curricula, and you can also contact us at 561-297-3270 or email us at sociology@nerdsinglasses.com.

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“It is the 政治 task of the social scientist …continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his (sic) task to display in his 工作 — and, 作为一名教育者, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination.  And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”  C. 赖特磨坊, 社会学的想象力 (1959).