Sociology

In the past few days I have met three separate irish people who began their studies in sociology, and absolutely hated it. Two switched to psychology and one dropped out of school completely. All three were incredibly surprised to hear that I absolutely love it. The Irish school system is quite a bit different than America, they choose a subject from the start, and study only that and a minor and/or an elective, none of this liberal arts stuff. I wonder how the core classes for sociology change people's perceptions. I know that my sociological methods class and theory class were both a bit dry and pretty hard, so I wonder if they start with more of the foundations and then build up. What pulled me in was the fact that you get to study pretty much anything you want. My first taste of a sociology class was Deviance, in which we studied brothels and biker gangs. Maybe if they had seen how interesting sociology could be they would have wanted to stick with it. I wonder...