
The Department of Sociology offers both Bachelor's and Master's degree programs that provide students the skills necessary to succeed in research, social services, business, education and healthcare careers and prepare our students for a diverse and changing society.
Our students develop insights about the effects of social structures on individual lives, communities and the broader society, learning to use evidence-based practices to address complex social issues. Our research and teaching focuses on the economy, gender, race/ethnicity and aging, as well as social institutions such as the family, education and work.
“The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.”- Pierre Bourdieu
