Doctor's degrees in Sociology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human social institutions and social relationships. Includes instruction in social theory, sociological research methods, social organization and structure, social stratification and hierarchies, dynamics of social change, family structures, social deviance and control, and applications to the study of specific social groups, social institutions, and social problems.
The Sociology Department offers the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Students are admitted directly into the Ph.D. program and earn an M.A. degree in the process of completing the program. We do not admit students seeking a terminal M.A. degree.
The Ph.D. is an 84 semester hour program, including 30 hours of M.A. work (6 of which are thesis hours), and an additional 54 hours of Ph.D. work (12 of which are dissertation hours, 6 of which are teaching...
The applied sociology track to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology provides the opportunity for qualified students to do graduate work in this discipline at the highest university level. It provides preparation for a career path in government agencies, institutes and corporations in which specialists in applied research are desired; or for a career path in teaching and research at the college and university setting. Graduates from our program...
Sociology at Boston University offers an active program at the master's and doctoral levels in preparation for careers in research, teaching, and applied sociology.
The program emphasizes core knowledge and theory as well as rigor and innovation in research. The research and teaching interests of the faculty facilitate diverse research agendas for students. They span a number of theoretical and methodological approaches, and numerous substantive...
The objectives of the Ph.D. program in Sociology is to provide a broad background in general sociology and to create the capacity for theoretically relevant, rigorous research in at least one area of specialization. Although faculty interests cover a wide range of specialty areas within sociology, doctoral students are encouraged to major in one of the following four areas: criminology/deviance; demography; family studies; or social psychology Faculty...
The Brandeis Sociology Department has had a distinct culture that links the key normative questions of democracy, social justice, and the good life to the critical traditions of European and American social thought and Chicago School methods of rich ethnographic fieldwork in communities and institutions. The graduate program's goal has been to oblige students to formulate questions of social and analytical importance in "big picture" terms and submit...
The department of Sociology has developed an exciting program of studies at the graduate level, built on our faculty's research interests and their commitment to excellence. The students and faculty engage in extensive collaboration in research and teaching, and there is close mentoring of students. Financial support to cover tuition and living costs is available to almost all continuing doctoral students and includes teaching and research assistantships,...
At Case Western Reserve University, doctoral study is focused on the dynamic area of sociological inquiry: the sociology of aging and the life course. Within these areas, students may focus on a wide range of specific topics, such as stress and coping, health disparities, the social construction of diagnosis and disease, and the interaction of race, class, gender, age and other factors as sources of social inequality. Graduate training includes...
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