- Program Type:
PhD Program
- Sociology, PhD
- Phd Program Details:
Sociologists study groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within those contexts. We analyze how larger social and cultural structures shape individual opportunities, attitudes, and behavior. This lens is critical for understanding our increasingly diverse and global society and the complex inequalities that characterize it. Rutgers Sociology is a broad and eclectic department organized around several overlapping research areas. We encourage our students to find their own distinct location amidst the department's rich intersections. Our Graduate Program trains them to become competent, creative, and distinctive working sociologists, whether they go on to work in academia or in non-academic settings. Our faculty conducts research that reflects the remarkable substantive range of our discipline and uses a wide variety of both quantitative and qualitative methods, including the latest statistical modeling techniques, innovative computational and network-analytic approaches, in-depth interviews and ethnography, detailed comparative historical inquiry, and sophisticated survey analysis. Given our longstanding emphasis on writing, most students complete our program with one or more peer-reviewed publications, some in leading journals in the field. Our graduate students regularly win national paper awards, competitive fellowships, and awards from regional associations.
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