Socioeconomics can influence the development and well-being of a community and its residents. This broad concept, which explores connections between economic activity and social behaviors, can often ...

For Thanksgiving my wife and I drove to Colorado to spend the holiday with my parents. It had been over five years since the last time we did that drive; fifteen hours in the car, most of the time ...

Economic sociology investigates how social structures, cultural meanings and interpersonal ties shape economic behaviour and institutions. Central to the field is the concept of embeddedness, whereby ...

A recent University of Michigan study exposes a gap in sociology: a lack of focus on climate change. Societies fuel and face the consequences of this crisis, but sociology as a discipline appears ...

The sociology of the life course examines how individuals’ lives unfold over time as they move through socially defined stages such as schooling, employment, family formation and retirement. It treats ...

The Sociology BA at Sac State is a fully in-person program that is focused on equity and social justice. We strive to prepare sociologists that will create awareness and activate change towards a more ...