社会学文学学士

LMU的社会学专业帮助学生发展智力技能，以检查和理解构成社会基础的关系模式。在此基础上，社会学关注的是个人参与群体的原因和后果。家庭，社区，运动队，政党和种族团体等社会单位使人们能够发展互动，意义和身份的网络。这些网络又为社会内部的稳定，冲突和变化提供了集体基础的框架。社会学专业在日益复杂的世界中为学生提供必要的培训，以使他们了解这些框架既限制并实现了人类选择和机会的方式。
LMU's Sociology major helps students develop the intellectual skills to examine and understand the patterns of relationships that form the foundation of society. At its basis, sociology is concerned with the causes and consequences of individual participation in groups.<br><br>Social units such as families, neighborhoods, athletic teams, political parties, and ethnic groups make it possible for people to develop networks of interaction, meaning, and identity. These networks in turn provide the framework for a collective basis for stability, conflict, and change within society.<br><br>The Sociology major provides essential training in an increasingly complex world for students to understand the ways in which these frameworks both limit, and make possible, human choice and opportunity.<br><br>Sociology majors explore the social and cultural influences on human behavior, the dynamics of interaction, relationships within society, and social institutions and social change in a global context. Students explore areas of study such as deviance and control, social inequality, social structure, culture and process, family and life cycle, and globalization.<br><br>Sociology majors learn the processes and structures that establish the underlying regularities of social life. They explore the ways in which social life is continually reconstructed through opposition and deviance. They learn the significance of cultural differences in traditional and modern societies, the origin and development of theoretical ideas that inform contemporary sociological inquiry, and the basic methodological and statistical strategies used in contemporary sociology.