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.
“Actors do not behave or decide as atoms outside a social context ... Their attempts at purposive action are instead embedded in concrete, ongoing systems of social relations.”— Mark Granovetter
