Employers weigh internships more heavily in hiring than where you went to school, your grades or your major – that’s the essence of a quote pinned outside the sociology department’s academic advising office at Illinois.
Discover SociologyThe function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
Making sense of the Arab SpringThousands flooded streets and squares in the Arab Spring of 2011, and dictators fell. But true revolution never came, or has been thwarted since.
Publication Spotlight: Neo-Orientalism
by Asef Bayat
ISA The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World
Alumni Spotlight: Wilbur A. Weder and Gregory L. Lambert Sociology Endowment Fund
Generous Gift Creates the Wilbur A. Weder and Gregory L. Lambert Sociology Endowment Fund
More Department News
- For much of America’s history, the middle class has been a useful paradigm for understanding what is meant by "the American dream." But across the country, definitions of the middle class are changing, and income data recently released by the U.S.
- Thousands flooded streets and squares in the Arab Spring of 2011, and dictators fell. But true revolution never came, or has been thwarted since.
- Dan Steward has been named the new Director of the LAS Teaching Academy in ATLAS!! His role is to stimulate new thinking and the spread of best teaching practices in the college. Please join us in congratulating him.
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Celebrating our Sesquicentennial 1867-2017
