Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of the structure and dynamics of society. It deals with human behavior and interaction on the group level wherever it may occur--in family and business, law and politics, medicine and religion, and a host of other settings. Our department is distinguished by both its breadth and its depth. Faculty have expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, theory and statistics, teaching and research. The department is especially strong in the areas of family, sociology of education, and sociology of religion, but also has distinguished faculty in methodology and statistics, theory, organizations, social psychology, comparative historical, political sociology, sociology of culture, stratification, and race and ethnicity.

sociology University of Notre Dame 810 Flanner 574-631-6463 For more information see the Sociology Department website

"Gossip, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco." Fritz Kaeser, 1946.
Photo courtesy of the Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art
Gift of Milly Kaeser in Honor of Fritz Kaeser. Used with permission.

About the Sociology Department

Sociology is the scientific study of the structure and dynamics of society. It deals with human behavior and interaction on the group level wherever it may occur--in family and business, law and politics, medicine and religion, and a host of other settings.  Our department is distinguished by both its breadth and its depth. Faculty have expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, theory and statistics, teaching and research. The department is especially strong in the areas of family, sociology of education, and sociology of religion, but also has distinguished faculty in methodology and statistics, theory, organizations, social psychology, comparative historical, political sociology, sociology of culture, stratification, and race and ethnicity.