The Department of Sociology is located in Sloan College on the beautiful campus of the University of South Carolina in downtown Columbia. Our highly productive faculty is proud to offer high-level theoretical, methodological, and substantive-area programs of study and research. Click on an item below or scroll down for more information.

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Sloan College: A Brief History

Originally built in 1927 to house the mathematics, engineering, and physics departments, Sloan College was named for Benjamin Sloan (1836-1923), acting president of the University from 1902 to 1903, and president from 1903 to 1906. A native of Pendleton, Sloan graduated from West Point in 1860 and served as a major in the Confederate Army. He came to the University (then chartered as the South Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanics) in 1880 and taught mathematics, physics, engineering, and astronomy in the decades that followed.

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Sloan College is building # 17. Click on the map to find other USC buildings.

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People

Supported by an excellent administrative staff, our faculty's interests in research and teaching span a variety of social and sociological issues, such as problems of social organization; the structural determinants of power, exploitation, and domination; sociological social psychology; social networks; methods of theory construction; paranormal beliefs; stratification; inequality; public policy; social network theory; law and social control; counter-terrorism; urban sociology; suicide; demography; altruism and collective action; family and education; collective behavior; race, class, gender, and sexuality; the African-American life course; the statistical analysis of interpersonal ties; and the cross-national analysis of social structures. 

Consult the Faculty Page, Staff Directory and Graduate Students Page for more information.

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Contact the Laboratory for Sociological Research for participation in experiments at: socylab@sc.edu.