Sociology - General Sociology
Overview
With a degree in Sociology, you’ll build a framework for understanding complex societal issues, with a valuable foundation for many community-oriented careers, including human services, teaching, law and politics.
Fast Facts
- Sociology offers practical skills needed to succeed in a diverse, global society.
- According to the American Sociological Association, over half of recent sociology graduates are employed in social services, administrative support, management, or education.
- You’ll have the opportunity to conduct your own research on a sociological topic.
- Sociology faculty have authored books on their sociological studies.
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With a degree in Sociology, you’ll build a framework for understanding complex societal issues, with a valuable foundation for many community-oriented careers, including human services, teaching, law and politics.
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A community service manager: Median pay $64,680 per year. Social and community service managers coordinate and supervise social service programs and community organizations. They manage staff who provide social services to the public.
A social worker: Median pay $46,890 per year. Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives. Clinical social workers also diagnose and treat mental, behavioral and emotional issues.
Nonprofit director: Median pay $64,086 per year. Nonprofit directors are equivalent to a CEO for a nonprofit organization. They are responsible for strategy, daily operations of the organization and working closely with the board of directors.
(Source: bls.gov and payscale.com)
Requirements
Sociology - General Sociology
Division
Program Type
Additional Information
Many courses have prerequisites which are listed in the course description. Please be sure that necessary prerequisites have been taken before enrolling in any course.
* Students declaring/changing to one of the majors in the division (GIS, PSY, SOC) must take the discipline-specific statistics course if they have not previ- ously taken another statistics course.
If a student has taken a statistics course in another discipline prior to declaring the major, and earned a C or better in that course, they do not have to take the discipline-specific statistics course.
Under no circumstances can MTH 200 be substituted for PSY 245 or SOC 215.
Note: Government & International Studies majors are required to take SOC 215. SOC 450 and SOC 490/491 cannot be substituted with portfolio assessment.
Roadmap
Sociology - General Sociology Recommended Series of Courses
AT BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE EACH COURSE UNIT IS EQUIVALENT TO 4 CREDITS, .5 COURSE UNIT IS EQUIVALENT TO 2 CREDITS.
FOUR (4) GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES MUST BE TAKEN AT THE 200 LEVEL OR HIGHER
*SOC 490/491 WILL SATISFY ONE (1) OF THE TWO (2) WRITING INTENSIVE REQUIREMENTS
GROUP II: GIS 235, SOC 211, SOC 212, SOC 213, SOC 230, SOC 234, SOC 235, SOC 236, SOC 241, SOC 243, SOC 243, SOC 249, SOC 251, SOC 257
GROUP III: PSY 317, SOC 305, SOC 308, DOC 309, SOC 314, SOC 316, SOC 333, SOC 336, SOC 369, SOC 370 GROUP IV: SOC 412, SOC 413, SOC 414, SOC 415, SOC 416, SOC 417, SOC 418, SOC 433
Courses
Faculty
- B.A. M.A. Ph.D.University of Wisconsin
Dr. Esmail Najmi is a Professor of Sociology and the Chair of the Division of Social and
Behavioral Sciences. He has a B.A. in Film Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociology, both from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of interest include social theory, class
analysis, sociology of culture/media, social revolutions, and research methods.
Courses Taught:
Statistics for Sociologists
Methods of Social Research
Classical Sociological Theory
Social Inequality
Selected Topics in Sociology (Punishment and Society; Digital Media and Social Life;
Power, Domination, and Modern Institutions; Contemporary US Society; and Cinema
and Society).
- B.A.Warren Wilson College;
- M.A.Queens College, City University of New York;
- Ph.D.The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Natascia Boeri
Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
B.A., Warren Wilson College
Courses taught:
Introduction to Sociology
Social Problems & Public Solutions
Theory and Practices in Human Services
Methods of Social Science Research
Senior Capstones (Senior Seminar, Fall Internship)
Special Topics (Gender & Social Policy, Women & Leadership)
Dr. Boeri is an Associate Professor of Sociology, and specializes in gender, work, and social policy. Her current research is on mothers who use opioids and barriers to health and social services. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and she was a 2015-2016 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellow. She is an active member of the Sociologists for Women in Society, and has represented SWS as a delegate to the United Nations numerous times. Dr. Boeri’s teaching style emphasizes experiential learning and she is a strong supporter of undergraduate student research. Her publications can be found on Google Scholar.
- B.S. M.A. M.Phil. Ph.D.New York University
Ph.D. New York University
Courses taught:
- Deviance & Social Control,
- Criminal Justice & Race
- Prison Industrial Complex
- Sociology Spring Internship
Interests:
- Social justice activism
- B.A.Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
- M.A. M.Phil. Ph.D.New York University
Vânia Penha-Lopes
Vânia Penha-Lopes is Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College. She is also co-chair of the Brazil Seminar at Columbia University (2008-present) and was a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association-BRASA (2010-14). A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Penha-Lopes graduated with honors from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (1982). She is also a graduate of New York University, with a Master’s degree in Anthropology (1987) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (1999). As a post-doctoral fellow at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2006-07), she did research on the first graduating class of Brazilian university quota students. She has received a number of awards, including the Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in Afro-American and African Studies, from the University of Virginia (1996-98), and the Scholarship for Study Abroad from the Encyclopaedia Britannica do Brasil (1982), of which she was the youngest recipient. Dr. Penha-Lopes has lectured extensively on comparative race relations, African American fatherhood, and racism in Brazil and has been interviewed for articles in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, O Estado de São Paulo, and The Washington Post. Her work has been cited in a number of books on race relations, in textbooks, and in peer-reviewed articles. In addition to a number of articles, Dr. Penha-Lopes is the author of Confronting Affirmative Action: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice (2017), Pioneiros: Cotistas na Universidade Brasileira (2013), and co-editor of Religiosidade e Performance: Diálogos Contemporâneos (2015).
- B.S.Cornell University;
- J.D.Brooklyn Law School
- B.F.A.University of North Carolina;
- M.A.New School for Social Research;
- Ph.D.Rutgers University
- B.S. Ph.D.Cornell University
- Ed.D.Fairleigh Dickson University
- M.S.Queens College, CUNY
- B.S.York College, CUNY
Program Learning Goals (PLGs)
- Identify the major conceptual and theoretical frameworks, along with the assumptions, upon which the discipline of sociology is grounded and that differentiate it from other social science disciplines.
- Move beyond “folk” explanations of social phenomena and employ the sociological imagination to analyze social problems in context, using core sociological concepts such as social structure, socialization and social interaction, inequality, and social change.
- Identify major methodological approaches to data collection and data analysis in sociology, describe the basics of research design, conduct empirical research, critically assess the research of others, and be able to identify the assumptions and limitations underlying particular research methodologies in sociology.
- Understand the value that sociological knowledge and skills have for life, work and citizenship, and use them to engage with and change the world around them.