Cornell's Department of Development Sociology prepares tomorrow’s leaders and assists today’s leaders to secure human well-being and environmental sustainability. It seeks solutions for problems related to social and economic change and engages organizations and people at all levels of society who are working to build community and local/global problem solving capacity.
The Department of Development Sociology conducts theoretical and applied research, teaching, and outreach on the causes, dynamics, and consequences of social, cultural, political and economic change.
Friday, September 5 - Cornell Population Program Conference
Friday, September 19 - DSOC/CRP Seminar
Friday, September 19 and Saturday, September 20 - DSOC/FGSS Militarization Seminar
Friday, September 26 - ENCORE Conference
Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4 - DSOC/FGSS Militarization Seminar
Friday, October 10 - DSOC Seminar
Friday, October 17 - DSOC Graduate Student Panel
Friday, October 24 - DSOC/CRP Seminar
Friday, November 7 - DSOC Seminar
Friday, November 14 - DSOC/CRP Seminar
Friday, November 21 - CaRDI Future of Rural NY Seminar
Friday, December 5 - DSOC Seminar
Philip David McMichael
Professor
Overview
Most of my professional life has linked me to scholars interested in studying social change from a world-historical perspective. Consequently I have been active in the sections in the American Sociological Association concerned with comparative-historical analysis, and world-system analysis. I have... Read More
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Matt Hoffman...My concentration is State, Economy, and Society, with a special interest in land use as seen through the lenses of sociology of agriculture and the sociology of property rights. My research takes as its point of departure the observation that many of the benefits of agricultural landscapes have the nature of public goods AND can only be managed effectively at a landscape level. I am interested in property institutions that place private rights within a broader framework of community-level planning that can facilitate cross-boundary management and the generation of non-commodity outputs. I have three research projects: community forestry in Vermont, the community land movement in Scotland, and common property in Norway.