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Welcome Society and culture are all around us. They are the water we swim in, the routines and expectations we take for granted. The Department of Sociology at Boston University invites students to take a step back to view those everyday routines with a more critical eye. Why doesn’t the U.S. have universal health care? Why do citizens of the U.S. never think about our history as an imperial power? How do educational institutions close doors at the same time that they open opportunity? How does religious participation both empower and disempower people? Why do nonprofit organizations play such an important role around the world? Why do crimes with similar levels of monetary harm result in very different punishments? Why are Bostonians so attached to their neighborhoods? How do we come to trust the person to whom we lend money? These and dozens of other questions are at the heart of the
teaching and research we do. Our graduate students take these
questions to the far corners of the globe as they pursue M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees. Our faculty members contribute a steady stream of new
insight into the social world with their books, articles, and
contributions to public conversation. And visitors to the
Department from throughout the world continually enrich our
understanding. The Department is proud to be the center for the Social Science
and Religion Network (SSRN), headed by Professor Nancy Ammerman,
and the annual journal Political Power and Social Theory,
published by Emerald Press and edited by Professor Julian Go. We welcome you as a virtual visitor to the Sociology Department at Boston University! Please take a look at our spring 2010 course offerings! |
EVENTS Click on titles for full story. November 13 | Seminar Series NEWS BU Sociologists at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Prof. Yeager Weighs in on Defendants’ Rights Sylvia Dominguez receives Ford Fellowship Seminar Series lecture by Rhacel Parreñas broadcast on WBUR. |