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Maryland's internationally prominent sociology department offers a broad program of
excellence with special strengths in
Demography ,
Development,
Gender Work and Family,
Gloablizing Theory.
Military Sociology,
Social Psychology, and
Stratification
We have also begun to build a program in
environmental sociology.
The department has added
seven new faculty
since 2010, and
our reputation has continued to rise in recent years.
Research centers such as the
Maryland Population Research Center,
the
Center for Research on Military Organization,
the
Center for Innovation, and the
Program for Society and the Environment,
offer students and faculty abundant opportunities to collaborate.
The Department also houses the
India Human Development Survey.
With our combination of size, intellectual range, strong specialty areas, racial/ ethnic diversity, and
Washington area location,
we believe Maryland provides an ideal setting to pursue the
B.A.
or the Ph.D.
degrees in Sociology.
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See
Faculty Publications
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What's new?
Monday, February 6, 3:00
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall
Pawan Dhingra
Oberlin College and
the Smithsonian Institution
"Hire a White Woman: Race and Gender Calculations for Business Owners."
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In the Spotlight:
Recent graduate student accomplishments
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Paul Dean
has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at
Ohio Wesleyan University
starting Fall 2012.
Pauls's dissertation examines social movements that seek to influence corporations through market-based mechanisms such as investment boycotts.
He interviewed producers of "social certifications" (e.g. FairTrade) that seek to influence corporate social responsibility by certifying compliance with environment, employment,or other standards.
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Nathan Jurgenson
has been invited to give talks on various aspects of digital media in Italy, Canada, and San Francisco.
Nathan has been writing for the
Atlantic
and
Salon.
He has helped organize the web pages for the
prosumer study group
and the blog for
cyberology.
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The
Sociological Cinema website,
a video library for the sociology classroom maintained by
Les Andrist,
Valerie Chepp,
and
Paul Dean
has been cited by the
Merlot Project
(Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) for the
“exceptionally valuable contribution that Dean, Andrist, and Chepp have made to advancing teaching and learning within the discipline.”
The site is also December’s “featured sociologist” by
W.W. Norton.
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