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SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY


Major:

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology                                                     

Minor:

Concentration:

  • Criminology
  • Social Policy

Number of 2006 Graduates:    9         

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology seeks to educate students about the richness and complexity of social and cultural life.  In their sociological studies, students engage in critical analysis of social structures and interactions in order to examine the taken-for-granted social world in which they live. Through courses and extra-curricular activities, departmental faculty provide students with ways to think critically about their world, their society, and themselves. Using the conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and analytical tools of the discipline, students are taught to look under the surface of social phenomena. Students acquire a new and different way of looking at the human community, including an appreciation of the social patterning of behavior, communities, institutions, and society, and a crucial understanding of the diverse ways of being human.

  • Both qualitative and quantitative research projects are required of all sociology majors as a capstone course.

Faculty Areas of Interest

  • Steve Farough - The Oppositional Gaze, Intersectionality, and the Social Geographies of White Masculinities
  • Richard Gendron – Criminology, urban development, and urban political economy
  • Susan Melia – Spirituality of older religious women
  • Amy Gazin-Schwartz – Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project: rural medieval settlement in the Highlands of Scotland.
  • Robert Biggert- Social movements/collective action, political sociology, comparative/historical sociology, methods/statistics.
  • Linda Ammons- Anthropology of gender, Middle Eastern and Native American cultures, and socio-cultural change in Palestine

Recent Graduate Schools

  • Assumption College
  • Boston University
  • College of William and Mary
  • University of New Haven
  • Dartmouth
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of California – Davis
  • University of San Diego
  • Brandeis University
  • UMass – Boston

Recent Employers

  • Burlington Police Department
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Framingham Public Schools
  • Massachusetts Department of Social Services
  • Merrimack College
  • Smithfield (RI) Police Department
  • Sturbridge Police Department
  • UnumProvident
  • Verizon
  • Northborough Police Department
  • Shrewsbury Police Department

 

Did you Know?

Members of the Class of 2006 interned at more than 120 corporations, nonprofit organizations and schools.

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