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In which year was the first university department of sociology in the United States founded?
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- It opened three years before the journal that department launched.
- Eighteen ninety-two.
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1892
Why
1892, at the University of Chicago. The date is often given as the beginning of professional sociology in America, though courses had been taught elsewhere earlier and the settlement-house researchers were already at work in the same city.
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