About
Our Community
We are a community of researchers, teachers, students and staff.
Our faculty carry out research and teaching on central problems of sociology. We are focused on social inequalities and on the social movements and global processes that challenge, sustain, or create those inequalities. These areas are not only cutting-edge for research within the sociological profession, but also profoundly significant for citizens of the U.S. and the world.
We train our graduate students in a variety of theoretical and methodological tools for advancing creative research. And we help our students develop as teachers.
We see our teaching of undergraduates as a part of the liberal-arts tradition in which we reflect on the mysteries of human behavior. We involve our undergraduates in combining real-world experiences and classroom learning.
—John Markoff, Chair and University Professor