A Discipline in Disarray? The State of Sociology
March 25, 2025
As Christian Smith concluded in his 2014 book, The Sacred Project of American Sociology, “Sociology has at a deep level become . . . ‘a herd of independent minds.’” Few would dispute that the herd mentality has become pervasive in the past decade across the academic disciplines, and more so in sociology. What happened to the field? What are the bright spots today? And what trends are shaping this field’s future?
Join us for the first of a series of events on the academic disciplines, where AEI’s Brad Wilcox will discuss the past, present, and future of sociology with Stony Brook University’s Musa al-Gharbi, Wayne State University’s Jukka Savolainen, and the University of Chicago’s Linda Waite.
