Sociology

Emory’s doctoral program in Sociology features an internationally recognized faculty dedicated to both research and teaching, excellent preparation for a range of academic and research careers, competitive funding, high levels of personal interaction between faculty and students -- students often publishing with faculty -- and extensive interdisciplinary connections.

We provide rigorous training in theory, research design, and statistics, as well as extensive preparation in these major substantive areas:

• Comparative political economy and global analysis: political sociology; political economy; global development and change; social movements; revolutions; world-systems; welfare states.
• Culture: mass media; religion; social change; world culture; music, literature, and the arts; popular culture; identity construction.
• Social psychology: interpersonal and group processes; status and power; racial attitudes; justice; legitimacy, emotions; identity processes, causes of crime, health and well being.
• Stratification and organization: inequality; education, complex organization; work and industry; medical sociology; gender, race, class, and ethnicity.

We also collaborate in exploring links across these areas. Ongoing projects explore the effects of inequality on physical, mental, and social well-being, the interface between social psychology and culture, and the factors that impact health across a range of societies.