In sum, sociology’s value to undergraduate students in a nutshell is that it (1) disabuses their common-sense views of freedom and responsibility (and then we wonder why all the binge drinking and date rape), (2) turns students into “better [game] players” who “pursue … goals more effective” (and then we wonder why so many want to be business majors), (3) “empowers” students to “set out with others to change” society (which is the hook for sociology-major prospects), and (4) causes students to doubt the value of their own cultural ways of life, thus paving the way for a tolerant
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