Learning Sociology: Successful Majors Tell their Story

The focus of this study is to begin to answer the question of how sociology majors come to learn their discipline. In this article, I report on the findings from the first study in a multi-method project on this topic. I conducted a group interview with honors sociology majors from around the United States. Students discussed several questions related to learning sociology. Themes that emerged, and which may be useful in a number of disciplines, included the need to make connections, the importance of other people, talking about the material, experiencing varied pedagogies, and the active construction of knowledge.