About Us

Our primary strengths are in gender, political and economic sociology, and the sociology of the environment. Each year more than 7,000 students enroll in approximately 80 courses offered by the Department of Sociology. The department has about 50 Ph.D. students and 700 undergraduate majors.

Faculty

Our faculty also include specialists in the areas of gender, political economy, environment, criminology, demography, education, organizations, race & ethnicity, religion, stratification, work & occupations.

Our faculty are affiliated with a wide variety of other university programs, including the Ethnic Studies Department, Women's and Gender Studies Department, International Studies Department,  Center for the Study of Women in Society, Center on Diversity and Community, Environmental Studies, and Planning, Public Policy and Management .

Sociology Breaking News

* Faculty Richard York is getting a lot of attention for a new paper on the relation of human behavior to climate change.

* Graduate Student Ryan Wishart has won a Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowship for 2012-13. During the fall term fellowship, Ryan will work on his dissertation, "Metabolism, Mountains, and Miners: A Dialectical Investigation into Appalachia as an Internal Periphery."

* Professor Miriam Goldman has had her most recent book, The American Soul Rush, published by NYU Press

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