Sociology

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SOCIOLOGY Ever wonder how you can get more involved with your major while changing the world at the same time? Through Changemaker Maps, you are equipped with the knowledge and connections to engage with social innovation in your own major.

WANT TO LEARN MORE? There are many different ways to get involved with social innovation within your major. For a full list of other opportunities, please visit silcbyu.com

FIELD OVERVIEW

MODEL IN THE FIELD

Sociology can help explain the contexts, conditions, and influences we all have one each other—and each other’s well-being. Many good-intentioned development projects at poverty alleviation have failed due to a lack of understanding of the sociological impacts of their actions. You can use your sociology degree to advise efforts in every sector in the best practices for successful implementation an entire community will adopt.

In 2001, Kolinska Rut used the knowledge she gained form her Ethnography degree to found the Network of Mother Centers. Her non-profit established and connected more than 300 centers all over the Czech KOLINSKA RUT Republic to help working mothers fight discrimination from government and employers. Maternity leave and a host of other women’s issues are serious career-enders that Kolinska’s centers address. More than 67,000 women have supported each other, been taught how to upkeep professional viability, and encouraged to change society themselves through her centers.

CLASSES ■ STAT 121: Principles of Statistics ■ SOC 112: Current Social Problems ■ SOC 300: Methods of Research ■ SOC 301: Applied Social Research Methods■ SOC 422: Inequality and Sociology ■ SOC 429: Theory of Social Change and Modernization ■ ANTHR 441: Anthropology of Development

EXPERIENCE (INTERNSHIPS, JOBS, PROGRAMS) ■ SSE Internship ■ SSI Internship ■ Social Venture Academy ■ Grantwell ■ International Development Minor ■ PEAT (Project Evaluation and Assessment Team) ■ Cardell Jacobsen-BYU Sociology Internship Coordinator (2023 JFSB)

ON-CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS ■ SID (Students for International Development) ■ NMSA (Nonprofit Management Student Association) ■ SSA (Sociology Student Association) ■ Free the slaves

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ■ ted.com (especially tedxbyu.com) ■ Sign up to receive emails from Kennedy Center and Ballard Center ■ socialentrepreneurshipandgrants.com ■ sociologywire.com

CHANGEMAKER MAPS

SOCIOLOGY PROFESSORS ■ Ralph Brown: Worked on USAID projects in Kenya and Indonesia with expertise in rural, agricultrual, and community development. Director of the International Development minor and Executive Director of the rural Sociological Society. ■ Ben Gibbs: Research focuses on social problems, especially educational and childhood development. ■ Tim Heaton: Research focuses on family characteristics and child health in Latin America. Currently he is analyzing religious group differences in socio-economic status and health. ■ Carol Ward: Researches social change processes and sociology of rural and urban communities. She has extensive experience in Ethnography and qualitative methods, survey methods, and applied social research methods.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

■ MPA (Masters of Public Administration)-Learn public policy and how to manage all kinds of organizations geared toward making a large-scale impact in almost any sector. ■ MSW (Masters of Social Work)-Learn to help individuals or affect communities at large through organizaing community action and/or policy analysis. ■ MS/PhD in Sociology-Further your knowledge of sociology and gain more experience researching, discovering new trends, and contributing to the field.

COMPETITIONS/CONFERENCES ■ TEDxBYU

WANT TO LEARN MORE? There are many different ways to get involved with social innovation within your major. For a full list of other opportunities, please visit silcbyu.com