#WhyWeLoveUESociology

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100 Reasons to Major in Sociology at the University of Evansville

1. Getting to ask Dr. Plikuhn a question if you wear purple on purple Fridays

2. Being a member of anthrotopia

3. Practicing Plikuhnism

4. Learning how to use your sociological imagination

5. Learning how to create curriculum vitas and resumes

6. Learning how to use SPSS

7. Learning all the social theorists

8. Picking your own research topic

9. Sending out your own survey

10. Watching the responses come in to your survey

11. Analyzing your own data

12. Learning how definitions of family change in Marriage and Family

13. Learning about community organization

14. Talking about serial killers in Crime and Deviance

15. Learning about cultures you have never even heard of in Anthropology

16. Watching Miss Representation

17. Opportunities to intern

18. Study parties

19. End of semester parties

20. Learning about mechanization in Social Problems

21. Touring a funeral home in Death & Dying

22. Touring a cemetery in Death & Dying

23. Presenting at the Gerontology Symposium

24. Carol!

25. Listening to “National Night” in Intro and having it stuck in your head for the rest of your life

26. Ever heard of Uncle Karl?

27. Learning about structural functionalism

28. Learning about Conflict theory

29. Learning about symbolic interactionism

30. Learning how cohabitation rates have changed

31. Learning the difference between sex and gender

32. Learning what “sexualities” means

33. Great discussions in Sex, Gender, and Sexualities!

34. Learning about Indians of the Great Plains in Anthropology

35. Learning about symbols in Intro

36. Learning the difference between nominal, ordinal, and interval variables

37. Learning how to write an IRB proposal

38. Presenting your research in senior seminar

39. Learning about how the planet is dying in Globalization and the Environment

40. Learning about the older adult population in Aging & Society

41. Having the best classrooms on campus (who needs windows anyway)

42. Discovering your biases towards others and working to fix them

43. The friends you make!

44. Dr. Plikuhn

45. Dr. Berry

46. Dr. Gray

47. The literal best faculty you will ever have

48. Learning that the goal is to reject the null hypothesis!

49. Learning the strengths & weaknesses of quantitative versus qualitative data

50. Learning how globalization has impacted all parts of the world

51. Learning to be culturally relative

52. Eating M&Ms and Skittles when learning that race is a social construct

53. Thomas Theorem – if we believe something to be real, it will be real in its consequences

54. Learning about manifest and latent functions

55. Learning about the sociology of popular culture

56. Never being able to look at movies, television shows, and music without using your sociological imagination

57. Social locations

58. Making posters about drugs in Social Problems

59. Dr. Plikuhn’s leftover Halloween candy

60. Dr. Berry’s cane

61. Dr. Gray’s jokes

62. “That’s not how it fucking works.”

63. Writing your marriage expectations in Marriage & Family

64. Writing your divorce expectations (uh oh!) in Marriage & Family

65. Learning ASA Format

66. Learning what feminism is NOT (It is NOT taking over and killing all the men!)

67. Learning what feminism IS

68. Reading “American Hookup” by Lisa Wade

69. Getting certified to do research on human subjects

70. Chance to present at the Midwest Sociological Society

71. Writing your death and dying arrangements in Death & Dying

72. Writing your obituary in Death & Dying (well, do you really want other people writing it for you?!)

73. Writing a “deathography”

74. Taking the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory

75. Learning how to conduct ANOVAs

76. Taking Death & Dying over the summer at Harlaxton in England! (You can visit Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery!)

77. Learning what to wear for interviews (this is not as common as you think, people!)

78. Did I mention Dr. Plikuhn has a candy bowl in her office?

79. Learning how to use Survey Monkey

80. Sociology just celebrated 100 years at UE!

81. Learning what a null hypothesis is

82. Learning p-values

83. Learning when to use ‘significant’ correctly

84. Learning how to open candy canes the right way (Did you know you’re not meant to poke the plastic?)

85. Being warned that grad school is hell

86. Watching Contagion in Death & Dying

87. Getting mini hand sanitizers because you watched Contagion in Death & Dying

88. Getting a mini pack of tissues on the first day of Death & Dying

89. Meeting your best friends

90. Learning how to be confident

91. Faculty who truly want you to succeed

92. Classmates who support one another

93. Office hours (Go to them! Your professors are interesting people!)

94. Positive neutral face (You’ll learn!)

95. A chance to be a member of Pi Gamma Mu

96. The best color tassel at graduation

97. Answering the attendance question of the day

98. The collection of cool things in Dr. Berry’s office

99. Do you know who John Wayne Gacy is? You will after you take Crime & Deviance!

100. It’s the best damn program there is.