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. You might encounter any of these topics, and many others as well, in your sociology and anthropology classes at Westminster.
The list shows that both sociology and anthropology are “holistic” disciplines. We are always trying to see the “big picture.” Consequently we try to look for the larger context of human behavior. It would be difficult for us to say that we truly understood the religion of a people without knowledge of their economy, politics, or way of forming their families. All of these things influence each other. |
