These are challenging times to study sociology. As both sociologists and citizens, we live in an era of unprecedented global economic, technological, and cultural change. Confronted by far-reaching transformations in major social institutions and engaging with the complexities of terrorism and war, we are called upon to help interpret our rapidly changing world and to assist struggles aimed at securing more just futures. How are such changes affecting the meaning of gender, race, and class-based structures of power in a global context? How are they affecting our approaches to theory and research, social policy and activism? While there are no simple answers to such questions, these are among the concerns addressed daily by faculty and students of the Department of Sociology at Boston College.
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