Students in nursing and public health greatly benefit from learning about sociological perspectives on all aspects of physical and mental health and illness, death and dying, caregiving ...

Pierre Bourdieu, 1990 These two quotes capture key aspects of a sociological perspective, and it is this perspective that the curriculum in sociology at Bates is designed to help students explore.

A sociology major focuses on the study of humans. Students in this major explore the diversity of social behavior and interactions. They seek to understand the human perspective by investigating ...

Interviews, conferences, videos, plays, films, but also sometimes the social network accounts of the authors or even the responses of families in the press bring an echo and perspective to ...

But I always invite opposing views, don’t censor those with whom I disagree, and never grade for political perspective. My “Family Sociology” students need to know the divorce rate ...

subjective understanding of different communities from their perspective. “Sociology gives us tools to understand people's lives that might not be like ours, to be able to understand how peoples ...

In our open, challenging, and yet supportive atmosphere, students rapidly learn the research methods, theories and perspective that form the nucleus of sociological practice. This makes graduate study ...