Advancing Studies · Boston College
What does Artificial Intelligence (AI) have to do with sociology? In this course, students will use their sociological imagination to critically examine the development, deployment, and social impact of AI technologies. Far from being neutral or purely technical tools, AI systems reflect and reproduce the values, structures, and inequalities of the societies that create them. Through the lens of classical and contemporary sociological theories, students will examine how AI intersects with key social institutions, including labor, education, healthcare, policing, and media. We will also investi
