A question for my sociologist friends/colleagues: what was your pathway into the discipline? What made you want to pursue it as a discipline? In talking with undergrads, I find almost no one goes to college/uni to become a sociologist. Rather, they find their way into the discipline at some point.

I finished my intended degree with a low GPA, took a “gut” class in anthro and got an A while not trying hard but having fun. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I started off in industrial labor relations. I liked my organizational behaviour courses, loved my sociology electives, and stumbled into soc from there. Michael Macy was an amazing professor in class.

Took an independent study in political sociology and realized it was closer to my way of thinking than international relations or political science.

Was a psychology major, but realized as I was finishing the degree I was much more interested in the social patterning of mental illness.