Sociology
Featured News
CSUN Faculty and Students Use Creative Arts to Identify Barriers to Nonprofit Services
January 11, 2016
California State University, Northridge sociology professor Moshoula Capous-Desyllas and sociology graduate students Aleksey Reshetnikov, Patricia Lara and Elizabeth Bogumil are researching people’s pathways to nonprofit services in an unconventional way — through the creative arts and visual mapping methodologies. Continue reading about the project.
What Can I Do with a BA in Sociology?
Please click on the links below for handouts that were recently given out at sociology department events.
Preparing for the Job Market (.pdf)
Career paths for Option III Social Welfare & Social Justice students (.pdf)
Career paths for Option IV Work & Society students (.pdf)
For more information regarding the new Criminology and Justice Studies Department, please click on the link provided below.
Criminology and Justice Studies Department
Mission
The Department of Sociology and faculty are committed to creating a supportive environment for student centered learning and achievement. Our students are exposed to all aspects of sociology and acquire sociological perspectives and the techniques for studying society. They learn to critically examine the value assumptions of our institutions and social practices, including the values and practices of our discipline itself. This reflexive stance is an essential element of sociological understanding. Our students will learn how sociology been used to solve problems for clients, foundations, agencies, and the community, and has contributed to social policy formulation and policy analysis. They will learn how sociologists engage in dialog and engagement with different publics in the civil society. Through their education, our students will understand that sociology and civil society are interdependent, both flourishing in an open and democratic discourse on the issues and crises of modernity.