A Message from The Chair of the Department:
Sociology has a rich and diverse heritage and continues to be a powerful analytic tool as we struggle to understand the complexities of daily life. The Sociology Department at Wake Forest is in many respects representative of that diversity, both in the faculty that we have and in the courses that are taught. Working within the teacher/scholar ideal that is discussed more fully below, we seek to provide students with a range of critical thinking skills, familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and an opportunity to study topical areas in depth. We hope to stimulate within our students what C. Wright Mills called a ‘sociological imagination’ along with the requisite methodological rigor and theoretical insight that guides the best social science. ...continue.

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force." - Karl Marx. 1846. The German Ideology