Vision statement
The LMU Sociology Department envisions a global sociology that attends to heterogeneous experiences, knowledge, and worldviews of people around the world. It recognizes that the Global North and South are interconnected and that what happens in one place can have implications for others far and near.
Our department provides the knowledge, tools and skills for students to gain global awareness so that they can navigate challenges such as persistent and intersecting inequalities, increasing wealth disparities, poverty, political conflict and authoritarianism, health disparities, climate change, and the effects of neoliberalism and globalization.
The first step lies in the development of a global sociological imagination. Students learn about social processes and systems that perpetuate and reproduce inequalities within and across borders – by class, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, and nation, among others – but they also gain knowledge about social change and movements that work toward a better world. Our research and teaching invites students to engage in dialogue and action for the global good.
List of courses that have at least 25% of their content dedicated to global, international, or transnational themes/topics (all fill upper-division course requirements for the sociology major and minor):
SOCL 3223: Blackness in Latin America: Identity, Politics, and Resistance
SOCL 3260: Human Trafficking
- Core Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
SOCL 3290: Social Inequalities
SOCL 3360: Environment and Society
SOCL 3361: Environments, Bodies and the Climate Crisis
- Core Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
SOCL 3370: Sociology of Globalization
- Core Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
SOCL 3371: Gender and Global Migration
SOCL 3390: Work and Economic Justice
SOCL 3391: Work and Labor in the Global Economy
- Core Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
SOCL 3998: Sociology of Climate Change