In a continuation of the far-right attack on democratic rights in the American school system, Florida’s public universities and college systems voted in January to remove introductory sociology as a ...

The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education ...

Much of the violence found in introductory sociology textbooks has little instructional purpose, according to UB researchers who analyzed the popular textbooks that many colleges and universities use ...

The board that oversees Florida’s state university system is taking steps to remove a course in sociology from the general education core course options for students — a move sociology department ...

A sk a sociology professor what students get out of the discipline’s introductory course, and you’re likely to hear that they gain an understanding of the way social dynamics shape behavior and learn ...

The subject has been “an integral part of higher education for nearly two centuries,” they said in a statement. A campus walkway at the University of South Florida, where about 1,700 students take an ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

The Department of Sociology offers a major and minor, as well as a range of courses that count towards the Social Science Core Requirements. Sociology courses address a wide array of important topics ...

Although there is widespread agreement among academics that critical thinking is an important component to the college classroom, there is little empirical evidence to verify that it is being taught ...

Department leaders at 10 of Florida’s public universities say they “strongly object” to a plan that would remove sociology as an option for courses students must take as part of their college studies.