Why study Sociology and Anthropology at Westminster?
• To gain a better understanding of your world and the behaviors and cultures of other people worldwide. • To recognize the intricate forces operating behind social movements and to learn to step out of your own cultural blinders (that you might not even know you have!) and understand events through the eyes of other cultures. • All of us have our ideas about how groups form, why people behave the way that they do, or the meaning of a particular ritual. The academic study of sociology and anthropology simply helps us examine these insights about society in order to make them more critically sound, systematic, informed, and theoretically sophisticated. Major Highlights Art, bureaucracy, conflict, death, education, family, gangs, housing, ideology, Judaism, know-nothings, law, music, nationalism, occupations, politics, Quebec, religion, sport, technology, values, Xhosa, youth, and Zulu. From A to Z, that’s a sampling of the breadth of sociology and anthropology. This list also shows that
