The Department of Sociology concentrates on two broad areas at the graduate and undergraduate levels: global social change and social inequality. The department’s intimacy creates a unique scholarly atmosphere in which faculty and students interact and collaborate frequently.
The department has a history of concentrated research and teaching in global social change and social inequality.
Graduates conduct research in universities around the world and occupy key staff positions in a variety of sociological research organizations and government agencies.
The Sociology major helps students develop expertise by exposing them to research and teaching in several areas central to the discipline.
Alexandre (Sasha) White and his collaborator Pyar Seth launch Underwriting Souls, a new digital archive and exhibit on the slavery-related holdings at Lloyd’s, one of the oldest insurance companies in […]
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As part of a strategic investment for a transformative expansion of the faculty of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University is […]