Economic sociology at Cornell has ranked as a top-10 graduate training program for over a decade. The U.S. News and World Report (2013) ranks Cornell's graduate program in economic sociology among alongside those of Stanford, Berkeley, and Princeton, Harvard, and Chicago.
Graduate students play an important and active role in the intellectual debates and research agenda of CSES. Each CSES working group has a graduate student who works closely with the group’s faculty coordinator(s) to help with the research.
Our Economy & Society courses provide Cornell undergraduate students with training in areas of expertise that are useful in a world increasingly shaped by economic and social forces of a truly global dimension.
“Economic action is ‘social’ insofar as its subjective meaning takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course.”— Max Weber
