Description
The nature and quality of individual experience can only be fully understood when simultaneously observed in its social context. This course introduces the essential sociological perspective that grows out of the psychological study of individuals and their experiences of groups, group behavior, and group membership. This perspective becomes an essential component of psychological understanding, especially as it relates to education, growth, and development. Students gain conceptual and practical knowledge of the ways groups form and develop, how they function and vie with each other, and the multi-dimensional influences groups have upon our lives.