Associate in Arts (AA) in Sociology

Irvine Valley College

Sociology uses behavioral research methods to answer fundamental questions about why and how groups of people behave the way they do from work to school to relationships with others. How social forces like culture, the economy, and social inequality are focal points of the major.
Sociology provides an excellent foundation for work in a wide variety of fields in public and social service, law, research, health, and nearly every industry. Sociology emphasizes hidden and overlooked elements of human collective behaviors, from the most mundane social habits to world-changing protest movements. Social theories and research assists our understanding of behaviors that many casually notice but do not deeply observe, yet sociologists strive to understand and describe hidden structures that encourage some actions and prohibit others.

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences