SOCIOLOGY PROGRAM MISSION AND GOALS Program Mission The mission of the Sociology program is to provide the intellectual basis and appropriate perspective for examining society and social behavior. This perspective is vital to the development of an educated and tolerant public. It is also significant for training students for entry into social service positions. The…
The Department of Social Justice Education offers a multi and interdisciplinary graduate program developed from the past programs of History and Philosophy of Education as well as Sociology in Education. This department provides students with critical understandings of the social, historical, cultural, political, economic, and ethical contexts of education, broadly…
We are proud to be consistently ranked as a top Sociology department in the country, excelling in a wide variety of intellectual pursuits. Our department is a well-knit community of faculty, staff, and students. Under our umbrella, we pursue research that is leading many sociological subfields in new and different directions. We emphasize teaching and public service…
We offer an accomplished faculty with important research and publication agendas, a wide variety of stimulating courses, and an active and diverse graduate student body in a large public university. UMass Sociology is deeply committed to its graduate students, offering financial support and professional development opportunities to ensure that students achieve career…
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Warm greetings to you from the Sociology department at McGill University. We hope that you will find this website interesting and informative. The sociology department at McGill has a distinguished history in the profession, in both Canada and internationally. We think of ourselves as a community, where undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and administrative…
Sociology is the study of our social world — of our social lives as individuals, of how people connect as members of various groups, of how societies are organized, and of how they change over time. As a sociology student, you’ll consider the various options facing societies in an increasingly complex, specialized world. You’ll also find yourself thinking about how…
Choose Sociology at Westminster and you will never think about society in the same way again. Studying with us means engaging with a dynamic 21st-century subject and exploring current social issues and debates using the latest research methods. Investigating the nature of societal structures, and their impact on people s everyday lives and interaction, is central…
Anna Korteweg (Phd 2004, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Professor Korteweg’s research focuses on the political debates regarding the integration of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and Canada. She analyzes the ways in which the problem of immigrant integration is constructed…
Explore what crime means in our culture and society and how it affects our lives. Look beyond traditional views and develop new ways of thinking about the effects of crime, its impact on individuals and societies and how we respond to it. Challenge your existing opinions about the nature of crime and disorder and learn to evaluate evidence, think critically and craft…
