Anthropology and Sociology

Anthropology and Sociology are two of the broadest disciplines within social sciences. While many may think that anthropologists only see the meaning of their life in measuring bones and cultural relics and skulls and that sociologists are people obsessed with unreliable numbers, the professors at SAS invite you to challenge these misperceptions.

Anthropology and Sociology major is designed to provide students with the foundation and research skills that facilitate rigorous studies on the social dynamics of human interactions, group processes, cultures and cultural developments, and social relationships. SAS major allows students to master the key contemporary concepts of human, society, and culture.

SAS also offers an intellectual immersion in affiliated disciplines that deal with the most pressing developments in the contemporary world such as market expansion, environmental degradation, digitalization, and intercultural communication.

Specifically, in the first two years of the SAS program, before the selection of their major, students acquire broad knowledge in diverse disciplines including ancient philosophy and quantitative methods. The purpose of this approach to education is to boost student motivation, goal-orientation, and readiness for challenging methodological training – the qualities required for successful passage through the whole spectrum of complex disciplinary courses associated with the SAS major.

At SAS, by means of critical and creative anthropological and sociological practices, students will be led to analyze vital questions about societal behaviors, popular culture, social control, social support, and deviance. In other words, Sociology and Anthropology major at SAS is designed to promote critical thinking about the world of social interactions and to promote evidence-based decision making.

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