@ Albright College

Perhaps the most comprehensive of the social sciences, sociology is concerned with the analysis and explanation of social phenomena. These phenomena, which range from the socialization of the child to criminal behavior and cultural change, are studied and investigated using a wide variety of research techniques. Through formalized standards of inquiry, sociologists focus on the relationships between the parts of social systems and how the systems are formulated, how they function, and how they are related to the everyday lives of human beings.

The Sociology Department offers four tracks:

• Anthropology

• Criminology

• Family Studies

• General Sociology

The department also supports the following interdisciplinary concentrations: crime and justice (sociology-political science-psychology), and child and family studies (sociology-psychology). In addition, students can combine each of the four tracks mentioned above with another academic discipline to form a combined area of concentration.