Sociology

Sociology looks at the social building blocks, or social structures, organizing Canadian and other societies. Sociology explores how families, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, legal systems and the state shape us as individuals and, in turn, how we as individuals shape these social institutions and structures. Sociologists are interested in understanding individual, group and societal experiences, choices and practices and the way seemingly personal characteristics represent patterns of behaviour that are shared with other people in other social groups and societies.Sociology is for students who are curious about how people get along (or not), how and why communities come to be the way they are and why they change, why different kinds of people have such different lives, how people can work together to make the world more just and sustainable. A пПФsociological imaginationпПХ will help you connect your personal story with the way societies are organized today, as well as in the past. Sociology is also for students interested in gaining first hand knowledge on local field trips, semester-long placements as researchers in community organizations or at international field schools.

Field of study: Sociology