Specializations
Crime, Law, and Deviance
Courses are offered in criminology, juvenile delinquency, criminal justice, and deviance.
Demography
Demography involves the study of family change, health and mortality, fertility and reproductive access, and global migration as well as rigorous methodological training. The Demography area comes with a training certificate for Demography Specialization.
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.
Political Sociology, Development, and Globalization
Students examine the cultural dimension in political theory and the causes and effects of development.
Race and Ethnicity
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.
Theory
The theory area examines the dominant schools of thought and investigate how and why they differ. In this context, it also considers the implications of the theoretical debates for the nature of social research in the discipline.
Work, Occupations, and Organizations
Major areas of interest include work, organizations, occupations, economic sociology, stratification, poverty, labor, consumption, markets, and intersectional approaches to understanding inequality.
