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.
“[T]he challenge is to specify and explicate the social mechanisms determining the relationship between the informal social organization of close-knit groups and the formal rules of institutional structures.”— Victor Nee
