PhD in Sociology in Atlanta United States | Emory University

Emory's doctoral program in Sociology features an internationally recognized faculty dedicated to both research and teaching, to preparing students for a range of academic and research careers, to high levels of faculty-student interaction and publishing, and to extensive interdisciplinary connections. e 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. Social inequality: education, complex organization, work and industry, medical sociology, gender, race, class, and ethnicity.