PSYCH/SOC MODULE
Sociology
Understand how social structures, culture, inequality, and institutions shape behavior and health outcomes.
Module overview
This module develops both foundational knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge to unfamiliar MCAT passages, experiments, tables, and clinical or research scenarios.
Topics covered
- Culture, norms, values, and socialization
- Groups, networks, and organizations
- Social institutions
- Demography and population change
- Social stratification and mobility
- Race, ethnicity, gender, and age
- Poverty and health disparities
- Deviance and social control
- Urbanization and globalization
- Major sociological theories
Learning objectives
- Apply theories to social scenarios
- Distinguish individual and structural explanations
- Interpret demographic data
- Analyze inequality and access to care
- Connect institutions to health outcomes
How this module appears on the MCAT
Questions may test direct knowledge, but many require you to combine passage information with foundational concepts. Focus on relationships, mechanisms, experimental changes, and elimination of unsupported answer choices.