Sociology Department

AKD

Alpha Kappa Delta


The department has an active chapter supervised by Professor Lisa Hickman. 35 of our students were inducted into AKD in 2007.

 

            
Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) is the international honor society for the discipline of sociology.
www.alpha-kappa-delta.org

AKD was founded in 1920 by Emory S. Bogardus at the University of Southern California. The name is derived from the Greek anthrôpos meaning mankind, katamanthanô, meaning to examine closely or acquire knowledge, and diakoneô, meaning to do service. Taken as a whole, the phrase means "To investigate humanity for the purpose of service."

AKD has published a newsletter since 1928 and a peer-reviewed journal, Sociological Inquiry since 1960. AKD makes scholarship and publication opportunities available to its members.
 



  
At this year's AKD ceremony sociologist Larry T. Reynolds spoke on the concept of race and presented his collection of publications to the GVSU library.