项目介绍

2022年10月10日

The Department of Sociology at Emory University is a vigorous intellectual community that offers a doctoral program designed to prepare students for academic and research careers. Our graduate program provides rigorous training in theory, research design, and statistics. 

While our faculty cover a wide range of topics in their research and teaching, our collective interests cohere around the following four topics:

• Culture: collective memory; cultural foundations of inequality; gender and racial ideologies; media production and consumpton; textual analysis; etc.
• Health: social determinants of health; health inequalities; mental health and illness; religion and public health; etc.
• Social Inequality: race, class, and ethnicity; inequality as related to education, health, work and occupations; etc.
• Social Psychology: interpersonal and group processes; social structure and personality; status and power; justice; racial attitudes; legitimacy; identity formation; emotions; etc.

As part of our graduate program, we ask that our students work at the overlap of two of those topics. Doing so provides not only breadth and connection to the broader discipline, it also allows our graduate students to build synergistically on the insights contained by scholars working across these topics. 

Our program has the following salient features:

• Five years of Graduate School funding supplemented by Professional Development Support funds
• Extensive teacher training as part of the LGS TATTO program, including a special departmental seminar and independent teaching opportunities
• Preparation for careers within and beyond academia
• A strong tradition of faculty mentoring and a low student-faculty ratio
• An active and supportive graduate student culture, which includes the Coalition of Graduate Sociologists (COGS)
• High-level student scholarship, reflected in publications in top generalist and specialist journals
• A new dual degree program in Sociology and Public Health
• Formal ties between our faculty and other units on campus, including
  • African American Studies
  • Candler School of Theology
  • Emory School of Medicine
  • Goizuetta Business School
  • Human Health
  • James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference
  • Quantitative Theory & Methods
  • Rollins School of Public Health
  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies