Sociology Department
SOCIOLOGY AT GVSU
The discipline of sociology provides concepts and skills necessary to study human behavior and social life. Sociologists emphasize and examine the diversity of human experience. They look critically and reflectively at past and present society. By combining theory with practice, the discipline of sociology encourages students to understand society as it is and to imagine it as it could be.
Sociology in simple terms is the study of people in groups. However, this takes many diverse and complex forms, including one-on-one interaction, the study of people in large groups, mass movements, governments, and corporations. The discipline includes nearly everything that people do when they interact with each other. This includes everyday interaction, such as family life, school, and work. Other sociologists study politics, mass movements, religion, and economics. Still others study the extraordinary events of human interaction, such as altruism, war, and genocide.
Sociology in simple terms is the study of people in groups. However, this takes many diverse and complex forms, including one-on-one interaction, the study of people in large groups, mass movements, governments, and corporations. The discipline includes nearly everything that people do when they interact with each other. This includes everyday interaction, such as family life, school, and work. Other sociologists study politics, mass movements, religion, and economics. Still others study the extraordinary events of human interaction, such as altruism, war, and genocide.
Sociologists often find their work at the center of many important and often controversial issues, such as poverty, inequality, justice and injustice, racism, sexism, the organization of public schools, environmental issues, and the conditions of work.
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