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.
Undergraduate students play an active role in the classroom and debates taking place in the Economy & Society research community at Cornell.
“Economic sociology is a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social economic action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequences.”— Max Weber
