在本课程中，您将探索全球背景下个人和社会之间的联系。您将探索社会结构，物质世界，经济，信仰和价值观的文化体系的变化如何影响我们作为社会成员。社会学学位将为您提供知识和技能，这些知识和技能在各种专业和职业中都变得越来越重要。当您学习批判性和创造性地思考，应用知识和信息并进行有效沟通时，您将获得更广阔的视角来理解世界。为了进一步扩大您的视野，技能和职业前景，您可以将本课程与另一个专业（例如社区发展，全球政治与政策，宗教，历史，澳大利亚土著研究或传播与媒体研究）结合起来。
Explore how changes in the structure of society, the material world, the economy, cultural systems of beliefs and values influence us as members of society. In an increasingly complex global world, understanding social change and your part in this is of vital importance. With this in mind, Sociology provides you with knowledge that is academically sound, socially useful and vocationally relevant. Central to how we practice Sociology at Murdoch is our interest in developing pioneering ways of understanding the dynamic relationship between individuals and the global societies they are part of. On top of exploring the patterns, ideas and findings of Sociology in various texts you will be encouraged to think as an active sociologist.Sociology helps us to grasp the connections between the personal and the social in a global context. It helps us understand how changes in the structure of society, the material world (eg. technology), the economy, cultural systems of beliefs and values, and access to power, influence us as members of society. Sociology is particularly interested in class, gender, ethnicity, and religion. Sociological knowledge and skills are increasingly important in a wide range of professions and occupations, and provide a broader perspective for understanding the world.