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Welcome to the Yale Sociology Department

Sociology – the systematic study of social life and social transformation – is flourishing at Yale. In 1875, Yale professor William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) offered the first American course titled “Sociology.” Today’s department spans a wide array of areas and specialties, balanced with an emphasis on the core concepts, theory and methods of the discipline. Much is new since Sumner’s day, but the Yale department still offers an overarching vision of the field, its future, and its relationship to knowledge of our changing world.

News

March 25, 2025
Yale Sociology PhD Students Jason Wong and Siyao Lu published “A Novel Time Use Approach on Daily Active Engagement with Life: The Intersectionality of Race and Gender” in...
December 6, 2024
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November 20, 2024
“Why are Yale students taking K-pop classes?” The Korea Herald presented an article investigating this question examining Sociology Professor Grace Kao’s course “Race...
November 6, 2024
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October 24, 2024
Professor Grace Kao was featured in an 18-minute-long interview on ABC (Australia)’s afternoon radio program “The Drawing Room.” The segment is titled “From Stars and Stripes...