WordNet
n. the academic department responsible for teaching and research in sociology [syn: department of sociology]
Usage examples of "sociology department".
Several sections of the ceiling had collapsed, so most of the debris came from the Sociology Department upstairs.
Helen is a professor in the Sociology Department at Georgia State.
Professor Gregg, of the sociology department, and Cisco Calendar, aspirant guitarist, were able to board the cattle train because of the 36-Hour Law.
Though it is a blunt overgeneralization, the sociology department seemed to me to be filled with socialists, the philosophy department with devotees of Michel Foucault's relativistic deconstructionism.
It occupies the younger members, to the relief of their elders (especially if the VBT is based at some distance from the seat of learning itself) and it uses up a lot of money which would otherwise only lie around causing trouble or be spent by the sociology department or, probably, both.