Our Sociology Department is a leader in the study of institutional structures and social interaction processes, and a center for research on public policy and social change. It is recognized for its diversity of perspective, support for emerging areas of study, and innovative approaches to the discipline. 

Consisting of 30 faculty, 95 graduate students, and 1,000 undergraduate sociology majors, the Department seeks to be a center of rigorous, sophisticated, and inspired searches for knowledge of social life.

Faculty members are among the best in the nation in the areas of economy and society, ethnomethodology and conversational analysis, feminist studies, global studies, race and ethnicity, sociology of culture, social movements, organizations, stratification, political sociology, urban sociology, law and social control, religion and society, population and environment, networks, quantitative and qualitative methods, and sociological theory.