Graduate training in Sociology prioritizes community and policy-relevant research focused on improving people's daily lives and society more broadly. Students focus on the integration of theory with a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches to study the dynamics of human behavior and social interaction in substantive areas including health and medicine; environmental sociology; sociology of education; sociology of gender; law, criminology, and deviance; class/stratification; race/ethnicity; urban sociology; social movements; family; and sexualities.. The program aims to prepare graduates for research and service positions in government, the non-profit sector, private industry, and the academy.

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