Australian National University

Bachelor of Arts (Sociology)

Select from a diverse range of majors across the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences, taught by world-class scholars, to create a degree that is expressly yours with the ANU Bachelor of Arts.

You will have the flexibility to engage in hands-on projects, take your studies abroad, or undertake an internship. You will gain valuable analytical and research skills transferable to the global workplace while developing expertise in critical analysis, written and oral communication, and the ability to drive global and local change.

Sociology Major
Sociology looks at the processes that structure and transform social relations, and the complex interrelationship between individuals and the environments and societies they inhabit. It explores how identities and institutions are formed, and dynamically shaped, by activities occurring in different social contexts. Sociologists examine a broad spectrum of behaviours and explain how and why social problems and inequalities emerge, how they are experienced, and how they are responded to. The discipline draws on diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to analyse various social agents, fields and issues, ranging from climate change, globalisation, colonialism and urbanisation, to inequality, conflict, surveillance, health, education and work.