The field of Sociology of Health examines the ways in which social structures, interactions, and cultural contexts shape health outcomes and the distribution of disease across populations. It ...

Entering winter term as a sociology minor, I needed a 300-level sociology class to take. Only one was open: SOC 318, Social Networks and Health with Emmanuel Koku, PhD, associate professor in the ...

In the world of medicine, treating the body and treating the person can be two distinctly different things. The medical sociology program in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of ...

Sociology of inequalities encompasses the study of how social hierarchies are produced, maintained, and challenged through interdependent economic, cultural, political, and historical processes.