Sociology: Intro to Women's Studies: Sociology @UW-Madison

The APL provides applied demography; spatial information and analysis; community development and planning; and information applications. The mission of the APL has been to carry forward a program of applied demographic research and outreach to translate social and economic data into useful information for Wisconsin’s citizens, policy makers, public agencies, private organizations and other state residents.

A multi-disciplinary faculty research cooperative for social scientific demographic research.

Links to their data on aging page. About 55 studies and datasets have been highlighted in order to provide easy access to some of the most well known and useful studies of the sociological, economic, and medical aspects of aging.

A research and policy center dedicated to improving economic performance and living standards in the state of Wisconsin and nationally.

The department of Community and Environmental Sociology is concerned with a multidisciplinary approach to a wide array of issues from environmental degradation and globalization to sustainability and local food systems.

Funded by the European Commission, this page links to the research done by UW-Madison on improving U.S. - E.U. relations.

the A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change is dedicated to promoting critical intellectual reflection and exchange, both within the academy as well as between it and the broader society.

IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. As one of three Area Poverty
Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.

UW Madison's Sociology Department ranks number 2 nationwide!

Science and technology studies (STS) is a growing field of study that seeks to understand how science and technology shape human lives and livelihoods and how society and culture, in turn, shape the development of science and technology.

Link to the undergraduate major.

Multidisciplinary group that examines the issues surrounding gender. "We share a commitment to producing rigorous scholarship aimed at understanding gender as a process and structure."