Sociology focuses on “the analytical study of the development, structure and function of human groups and societies."
General Goals for Learning
The Sociology major has three major learning outcomes:
- Students will use and apply the "sociological imagination" (i.e., the ability to see the connection between one's sociohistorical position and one's inner life/external career).
- Student's will move from "naive realism" ("the simple acceptance of the world, its objects, and its processes as being just what they seem") to a scientific perspective of deliberate doubt and systematic inquiry.
- Students will understand the differences between the three major sociological paradigms: functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism.
Majors & Minors Offered
Sociology Major
Social Science Major
Social Science Education Major
Sociology Minor
For more information contact:
Dr. Wesley Miller, Coordinator
Sociology Program
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights #1516
800-635-5987 x. 1512
wmiller@smumn.edu |
