News

Mabel Berezin's Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times featured on ROROTOKO, an online venue for authors' interviews. Berezin is the first sociologist to appear on the program.

Doug Heckathorn's research on respondent driven sampling featured in New York Times article.

Jon Kleinberg (PI), Michael Macy (Co-PI), and David Strang among Cornell researchers awarded $5M NSF-HCC grant to study the social production of knowledge in online networks.

Field member Jon Kleinberg receives 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his pioneering work on networks, information, and the web.

Ben Cornwell awarded National Institute on Drug Abuse grant to study networks of men at high-risk for HIV/AIDS.

Michael Macy and Damon Centola win Best Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the ASA.

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Welcome to the web site of the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. The department, a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences, is a vibrant intellectual community of approximately 15 faculty, 50 graduate students, and more than 100 undergraduate majors who share an interest in understanding the social world.

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