• The discipline of sociology and the sociology major at NYU examine how the individual lives are embedded in families, groups and social networks, neighborhoods, and schools, and organizations and institutions.
  • Sociologists focus on the ways in which the own biographies are influenced and constrained by broader social, political, and economic forces which can be very localized but are increasingly global in scale.
  • Study sociology to understand the social world and to create change that will make it a better place. It is a discipline that gives students the tools to think critically about public issues of the day and to analyze many different kinds of evidence about the world.
  • It pushes students to see the world differently and to look beyond individuals to see the ways in which power, inequality, and social hierarchies operate beneath the surface of everyday life.