Inaugural Recipients of the AI-Informed Discovery and Inquiry Seed Grants announced. AI Tools for the Study of World-Historical Patterns of Social ProtestPrincipal Investigator: Beverly Silver, Professor in the Department of […]
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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The department has a history of concentrated research and teaching in global social change and social inequality.
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Graduates conduct research in universities around the world and occupy key staff positions in a variety of sociological research organizations and government agencies.
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The Sociology major helps students develop expertise by exposing them to research and teaching in several areas central to the discipline.
News & Announcements
AAS 2024 Book Award Winners Announced
Ho-fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy, received the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, post-1900) for his book City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule (Cambridge […]
Inaugural survey by Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative benchmarks sentiments and experiences across Baltimore
Lead author Michael Bader, an associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins and faculty director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative, on Baltimore Area Survey.