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Exploring Society & Culture

Our disciplines investigate the complex relationship between individuals and social systems to inform and empower future citizens and leaders.

Why Sociology & Anthropology at Lehigh?

The Department of Sociology & Anthropology offers courses and research opportunities geared toward fostering self and societal awareness, as well as an understanding of what it means to be human. 

Take courses that provide you with the necessary analytic skills to understand and conduct social research. Be part of research that provides you with opportunities to publish in top professional journals and present at conferences. Our graduates go on to a variety of careers, including medicine, law, marketing, or education.

Join a community of faculty and students where the emphasis is on helping you grow personally and professionally.

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Thesis Celebration Dinner

Majors in Anthropology and n Sociology complete a capstone project - an internship, a research project, or an honors thesis.  this event will acknowledge all the senior projects while highlighting the thesis research.  Students who chose the thesis option will present their project at this dinner event.  By invitation.

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Testimonial

Cate Coffino, Sociology major at Lehigh

“I'm learning in my sociology classes how to talk to people and how to understand people rather than just getting a textbook and reading a bunch of information. I'm really getting to understand why people are the way they are and I think that life skill would help me in a million different fields in my future.”

Cate Coffino

Sociology & Health and Medicine and Society Double Major
Jessica Peng, assistant professor of anthropology at Lehigh University
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Economics and the Education of Labor in Indonesia

Jessica Peng's, assistant professor of anthropology, book sheds light on Indonesia's revitalization of the vocational education system and how it’s shaping policy and the economy.

Read Jessica's full story
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