This is the page of the UIC Sociology Department, for faculty, students and alumni of the d Welcome to the UIC Sociology page!
We are a group of enthusiastic and energetic scholars who study, write about, and engage with the world around us. As such, we think that Facebook is a useful forum for discussing relevant issues using a sociological lens. We hope that this page will foster lively, respectful conversation amongst scholars, faculty, alumni, students and friends of the department. Join the conversation! More about U
IC Sociology: As a department, we have two broad areas of expertise: the study of race/ethnicity/gender and the study of work/organizations/economy. All of our graduate students become experts in one of those two broad and important areas of sociology. Within those areas of expertise, we have an amazing variety of fascinating research underway. Faculty study everything from adolescence and young adult sexuality to youth entangled in the juvenile legal system. Many of our faculty and graduate students study the processes of immigration to the United States from other parts of the world. Other faculty and graduate students study the process of organizational inequality in major corporations, and are considered national experts who testify in trials about race and gender discrimination. Faculty study everything from how bureaucracy became embedded in American corporations, to how social movement organizations mobilize to promote social change in markets and politics. We have been ranked one of the top 20 departments to study the sociology of gender and have long been considered one of the leading places to study racial inequality from the corporate world to housing segregation.
