Department of Sociology

Sara McLanahan, Who Studied Single Motherhood, Dies at 81

NYT: A Princeton sociologist and a single mother herself, she brought her own experience to her wide body of scholarly work.

Sociology 102: Police Violence, #BlackLivesMatter and the Covid-19 Pandemic.

COMING FALL 2020: This course will examine the historic moment in which we are living in order to introduce students to the concept of race and...
The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts

In many parts of the country, black and white Americans continue to live in very different worlds. This distinctive feature of American inequality is...
A Sociological Note on George Floyd’s Death and the Pandemic

In this contribution to the “Covid-19 and the Social Sciences” series, Patricia Fernández-Kelly connects the killing of George Floyd, and the...
Michelle Obama, Princeton Sociology Class of *85, pens letter to graduates everywhere.

Given the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, schools across the country have canceled their in-person commencement exercises. To celebrate the graduates...

Sara McLanahan | December 27, 1940 – December 31, 2021

by Kathryn Edin. Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, passed away on December 31 at 3:15 p.m.
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Awarded to Gözde Güran

The winner for the Social Sciences category is Gozde Güran, whose highly original dissertation traces the complex hawala system of informal money...
Listen | Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?

Meet the Princeton Sociologist Who Thinks Policing 'Unsustainable' – The New York Times
Interdisciplinary Data Science Search

As part of a major new initiative in interdisciplinary data science, Princeton University is undertaking a search for faculty members at all academic...
AAS: Accepting Applications for 2022-2023 Visiting Research Positions

Department of African American Studies Now Accepting Applications
Listen | 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law (Kim Lane Scheppele)

President Joe Biden confirmed the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan just 11 days shy of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Now, Afghanistan...