Political Leanings of Sociology Students

[FutureMAStudent]

At some point in the future I may do an MA in Sociology. I get the impression that it's very left leaning.

In your experiences, do you find the students around you to generally be like this.

I'm more left of center and can be a bit sympathetic to fiscally conservative causes at times.

Do you encounter a lot of Faculty who are intolerant of non extreme left leaning views?

I have a B.A. in Economics if that matters.

[captiv8ed]

There are definitely right leaning sociologists. David Poponoe and Brad Wilcox come immediately to my mind they have more conservative views of the family. I was also told that the sociology of religion folks at UNC are more conservative.

[Coffe-ology]

In my experience the sociology department tends to follow the culture of the institution, as a sidenote politics haven't really come up between me and my professors of course you know where they lean but in general not much discussion or care about students political lean. (one professor is actually a politician in my department and he doesn't talk about it that much aside from in his classes, but he still doesn't care).