Our social justice-driven program prepares students to be active community members and global citizens. As a faculty, our teaching and research engage multiple social perspectives, and analyze social arrangements with particular emphasis on race, class, gender, and sexuality. Courses explore topics such as economic inequality, mass incarceration, gender-based violence, social identity, gentrification, men and masculinities, transgender lives, and freedom dreams. Our intersectional pedagogy welcomes all students and centers the voices and needs of historically-disempowered communities. Together, we work to prepare you to engage in critical analyses of institutional power and practices, and to transform individual and group consciousness with an orientation to social action. Sociology is the study of society and social problems. Sociology gives you a lens through which to understand social practices in your family, institutions, and social policy. It provides you with the tools to analyze, critique, and transform social structures, institutions, communities, individuals, and yourself. We seek to cultivate the 'sociological imagination, the ability to contextualize daily life in the broader patterns of social forces.