Friday, December 15, 2023
Training Future Activists
The Florida Board of Governors’ recent decision to omit introductory sociology from the list of social science core courses in the state college and university systems was met with outrage by the heads of several sociology departments in Florida institutions. They claimed that sociology is a scientific field that gives students vital knowledge for their civic education and professional futures concerning “the social causes and consequences of human behavior…[and] patterns of organization and change in social life.”
