Welcome
We have 12 full-time faculty members who conduct research and teach courses on a range of compelling topics, including the sociology of culture, family, law, religion, education, work, race and ethnicity, gender, business, criminal justice, politics, immigration, sport, emotion, and health. Our courses offer students the opportunity to examine the often complex causes and consequences of socioeconomic status, gender, race, and sexual orientation inequality. Students can earn certification for concentrations in crime and criminal justice, business and society, and the social determinants of health and well-being.
News and Announcements
Empirics of Justice: Tracking the Carceral Continuum in Urban America
The Wake Forest Department of Sociology hosted Dr. Carla Shedd, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) as the next speaker in our series of talks and interviews with sociologists studying race and racism in law, medicine, family, education, and…
Colorblind Racism Across Institutions
The Department of Sociology will hosted a virtual lecture with Dr. Anthony Ryan Hatch, Associate Professor and Chair of the Science Program at Wesleyan University, titled, “The Data Will Not Save Us: Racial Spectacles and Afropessimism in the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Dr. Hatch’s research draws on critical social theories in science…
Welcome to Wake Washington
Wake Washington Students with President Wente, their host and Managing Partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP, Wendell Taylor (WFU ’95, Sociology, Criminology), and Resident Professor Steve Gunkel. Wendell (’95) offered an amazing presentation “Overcoming Adversity” for his audience of Wake Washington Students, their Resident Professor and our new President, Susan…
Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Brewer
Dr. Alexandra Brewer and her co-authors received an honorable mention for the 2021 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociology Association’s Medical Sociology Section for their article, “Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? Performance Evaluations, Medical Errors, and the Production of Gender Inequality in Emergency Medicine Resident Education.” You can…