Graduate
Faculty by Specialization
List of faculty by area (doc)- Crime, Law, and Deviance
We offer courses in criminology, juvenile delinquency, criminal justice, and deviance.
- Demography
Demography involves rigorous training at the Population Research Center (PRC) in both substantive and methodological skills.
- Development
Development focuses on theoretical approaches to economic, social and political development in the modern world, mainly how to deal theoretically and empirically with change and development in Third World nations in contemporary context.
- Education
The sociology of education examines how social institutions and individuals' experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development.
- Family
Issues include family decline, deinstitutionalization of marriage, gender roles, demographic trends, life course, trends in the welfare of children, and family change and poverty.
- Gender
Social consequences of changing gender roles in politics, the economy, education, and the family are explored.
- Health
The Health area emphasizes psychosocial epidemiology, demographic methods and research on fertility and mortality, marriage and family issues, ethnicity, institutions, and aging.
- Peace and Conflict
The sociology of peace and conflict advances understanding of the web of structures and processes that engender violent and nonviolent conflicts throughout the world. It integrates theory, methods, and data from various spheres in order to examine a range of conflicts ranging from the micro to the macro levels.
- Political Sociology
Students examine the cultural dimension in political theory from Weber and Gramsci to Parsons and Mannheim to Habermas and Bourdieu, to current cultural political theorists.
- Social Organizations
Major areas of interest include community and urban studies, business and entrepreneurship, education, labor and work, management, organizational theory, and stratification.
- Race & Ethnic Relations
The sociology of race and ethnicity examines questions of global racial formations in reproducing social inequalities. Ongoing interdisciplinary and multi-method research by faculty and graduate students explores the complex effects of racism and ethnic differentiation in relation to culture and identities, gender and sexuality, education, poverty, socioeconomic mobility, health and mortality, immigration and citizenship, law, and labor.
- Religion
The concentration explores the roles of religion in society.
- Theory
We examine the dominant schools of thought and investigate how and why they differ. In this context, we also consider the implications of the theoretical debates for the nature of social research in the discipline.