If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be the very best at something, look up senior Binghamton University women's basketball guard Cathy Mackin and ask her. Mackin last Friday became the all-time highest scoring women's basketball player at Binghamton University. A second lecture later this semester will honor the creative achievements of faculty. Students involved in the doctoral specialty study patterns of change over historical time. The director of Binghamton's world historical sociology program, Dale Tomish, said more than 100 graduate students are enrolled in the unique program.
Most sociological study is present oriented.
We're looking and trying to incorporate time and space more explicitly into the study. We also are distinct in that we look at world-scale structures, not nation states as component parts. If we take the underdeveloped third world as an example, studies in the 1950s were very present oriented.