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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 29, 2023
Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Award for Criminology, was recently interviewed...
March 1, 2023
Yale Sociology is pleased to welcome new hire Ángel Escamilla García.  Angel will be an Assistant Professor starting July 1, 2023.  His research broadly focuses on how...
December 13, 2022
Read the full piece, titled “There’s still reason to be worried about a national abortion ban,” at this link, or email rene.alm...
December 6, 2022
Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson will be the keynote speaker at the at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, December 13, 2022 Rethinking Race, the Colonial and...