Understand our world
Examine human social activity, relationships, and social structures. In our increasingly diverse world, studying sociology gives you lifelong skills.
Join us in sociology
When you major in sociology in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, you'll become an expert at understanding the situations of people different than you.
Sociology is the study of human social activity, relationships, and social structures. In an increasingly diverse world, the study of sociology gives you important skills: critical and analytical thinking, writing ability, cultural competence, and self-awareness.
Cutting-edge research. World-renowned professors. A supportive community. All here to help you succeed. No matter your path, you can pursue your passions and be set up for lifelong success through the College of LAS.
Find your path
Nafisat Habib, a freshman in LAS, found her path in sociology:
"The first day of Sociology 100 we learned about sociological imagination. From that point on I just knew I picked the right major and I was where I needed to be."
Sociology at Illinois will provide you with outstanding professional training and nurture your intellectual, personal, and professional growth.
Meet our faculty
If you major in sociology at UIUC, you'll take interesting classes with professors doing ground-breaking research. Learn a little bit about some of them.
Kevin Leicht
Kevin Leicht, a sociology professor and the science team lead at the U of I System's Discovery Partners Institute in Chicago, is co-leading the development of a software app that will alert clinicians to medical misinformation circulating on social media so they can address it with patients if they choose.
Ghassan Moussawi
With research situated in transnational gender, queer theory, and postcolonial feminisms, professor Moussawi studies how marginalized communities adapt to lives of violence and uncertainty.
Tim Liao
Sociology professor Tim F. Liao found three distinct themes in the protest slogans denouncing the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers.
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