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The sociology major develops a number of related skills. Students are able to:

    • Develop the ability to make connections between individual lives and broader social forces

    • Identify, compare, contrast, and synthesize basic theoretical orientations in the discipline

    • Apply theory to data to build sociological knowledge.

    • Identify, compare, and contrast basic methodological approaches.

    • Identify appropriate methods for empirical research.

    • Conceptualize and interrogate patterns of inequality in local and global contexts.

    • Understand diversity and its structural and cultural implications

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Department of Sociology

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    950 Main Street
    Worcester, MA 01610

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