Bachelor of Social Science in Sociology and Anthropology

The University of Newcastle

The sociology and anthropology major gives you the intellectual ability to put any facet of modern society under the microscope by providing critical thinking and research skills. The benefit of studying sociology and anthropology courses is that students learn fascinating insights into how society works, by examining the way we live now, and the wide variety of different societies and cultures that have existed over millennia. The study of sociology illuminates human behaviour by looking for the links between individual experience and the social context in which we live, work and play. Courses within this major involve questioning common sense views and personal opinion by asking you to consider the social influences that shape our lives. A sociological imagination questions the way things are, in order to think about the way things could be.

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