Professor Beverly Silver won the Distinguished Teaching Award from the ASA Political Economy of the World-System Section at this year’s ASA, in recognition of her outstanding graduate advising and her […]
Global Issues, Intimate Environment
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.
- Degrees Offered BA, PhD
- Major Sociology
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Faculty
The department has a history of concentrated research and teaching in global social change and social inequality.
Versatile Career Paths
Graduates conduct research in universities around the world and occupy key staff positions in a variety of sociological research organizations and government agencies.
Major
The Sociology major helps students develop expertise by exposing them to research and teaching in several areas central to the discipline.
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Costly climate ‘solutions’ look like more pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Associate Professor Michael Levien quoted in The Guardian.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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 […]