Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (Honours)

MacEwan University

By investigating social inequality, patterns of behaviour, forces for social change and resistance, and how social systems work, sociologists shed light on a broad scope of social phenomena – family life, street and corporate crime, media influence, employment and unemployment, youth subcultures, peace and war, criminal justice system reforms, multiculturalism, and globalization, just to name a few.

As a liberal arts discipline, sociology provides students with a breadth of knowledge, abilities, and skills-a ‘tool kit’ that can be used in a considerable range of careers, as well as in other roles in life. Graduates develop an understanding of how people’s experiences vary by race, class, gender, age, and other ascribed statuses an understanding of the impact social institutions have on individuals the ability to develop evidence-based arguments and write reports understandable to non-sociologists the ability to use statistics software and the ability to evaluate different research methods.