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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a very easy, useless major.[/quote]

This.  My college boyfriend was a sociology major and I don't think he had 10 minutes of homework over 4 years of college combined. Everything he learned was common sense.  [/quote]

I was the pp sociology major. I was constantly doing required reading and writing papers. At my university, sociology was one of the only majors that required an undergraduate thesis. We had an entire semester to devoted to writing our thesis and it had a lot of requirements. Just because your boyfriend didn’t do his homework doesn’t mean nobody had any. [/quote]

A lot of people are skeptical about the value of traditional liberal arts education.  It's quite saddening.  I think humanities and social sciences offer fascinating insights and train students to be critical thinkers and effective communicators.  And to contemplate important human and societal issues that can't be measured in financial terms.

My kid is majoring in political science (somewhat akin to sociology on the taking crap from people about your major scale).  People never stop asking whether he plans to go to law school or run for Congress (he doesn't).  The study of how people govern and how policies are developed and enacted through political processes is just interesting to him.  And distribution requirements and a minor are developing his other skills.  At a challenging college, even the "easy" majors are hard work, as PP above notes.[/quote]

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