The Course Descriptions for Fall 2025 are now available! Click here to see them.

Sociology-related upper-level course descriptions are now posted for Spring 2025. Here’s a direct link.

Here is the article for the Hillsdale Collegian
on Dr. Sarah MacMillen’s lecture.

The Sociology & Social Thought program is sponsoring a public lecture by Dr. Samuel L. Perry (University of Oklahoma), “What the Christian Right gets Right (and Wrong) about American Religion and Politics,” Friday Oct. 25th, 4:00-5:15pm in the Hoynak Room (reception following in the Dow Upper Lounge. See this page for more information.

The Sociology & Social Thought program is sponsoring a public lecture by Dr. Sarah Louise MacMillen (Duquesne University), “Reflective Presence: Jacques Ellul on the In-Between,” Thursday Oct. 3rd, 8:00-9:15pm in Lane Hall room 124. See this page for information on Dr. MacMillen.

Sociology-related upper-level course descriptions are now posted for Fall. Here’s a direct link.

We have made changes to our course listings for Spring 2023. The two courses originally listed by Dr. Walter Jensen have been canceled. Instead, he is now offering REL 374 (The American Religious Landscape), now scheduled TT 11am-12:15pm. I have updated the course descriptions to reflect the changes.

Spring 2023 Course descriptions are now posted!

Click here for the document.

SOC 391 (Emergence of Sociological Thought) has been canceled for Fall 2022. We hope to be able to offer it again Fall Semester of 2023.

Course descriptions for Fall 2022 courses in sociology and social thought are now available!

Click here to view the document.

Unfortunately, due to lack of enrollment, we are cancelling PSY/SOC 393: Qualitative Methods for the Spring 22 semester. We hope that we will be able to offer it next academic year.

The Sociology and Social Thought Program presents:
Community Cohesion: How Amish and Mennonite Groups Responded to the Pandemic
A talk by Rachel Stein (West Virginia University)
Monday, Nov. 29th, 2021 at 8:00pm in Lane Hall, room 125.
Light refreshments following.

Course descriptions for Spring 2022 sociology courses are now posted!
Click here for the document.

As of this Fall, Loren Wilbers, Hillsdale Sociology and Social Thought alum (2008) and sociology PhD (University of South Florida), is now tenured and has taken on duties as chair of the department of Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. Kudos to Loren!!

SOC393-02 (Pandemics and Other Social Calamities) has been canceled for Fall 2021.

Descriptions for Fall 2021 Sociology & Social Thought courses can be found here.

SOC493 (Seminar on Erich Fromm) has been canceled, due to lack of enrollment.

The course descriptions for Spring 2021 have been published! You can access the document here. This includes descriptions for PHL320 (American Philosophy) and PHL 345 (Contemporary Continental Philosophy), as well as all of the SOC courses.

SOC 493 – Sociology of Knowledge, Science, and Expertise, taught by Christopher Robertson (Northwestern University), has been moved to Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am to 12:15pm.  (It was originally scheduled on Monday evenings.)

Here is the course description.