Our faculty have diverse interests spanning the core areas of
the discipline. For example, interest in each of the following substantive areas
is shared by two or more faculty in our department: political sociology,
stratification, culture, education, family, medical sociology, mental health,
childhood, aging and the life course, organizations, sexuality, gender, race and
ethnicity, international development, work and occupations, social demography,
and social networks. Our faculty are proficient in diverse methodologies as
well, including advanced statistical techniques, ethnography, in-depth
interviewing, and comparative/historical approaches.
Our program is designed to provide students with broad training in theory and
methods in the discipline in conjunction with expertise in a substantive area of
their choice. All students take courses in social psychology, social
organization, theory and methods/statistics. Students also develop expertise in
a subfield of their choice, which they demonstrate with a qualifying exam in
that area. In recent years, students have taken exams in social psychology,
medical sociology, mental health, political sociology, social movements,
education, gender, childhood, sexuality, aging and the life course, deviance,
globalization, family, stratification, race, community, work and occupations and
organizations.
For a complete list of faculty and student interests, please visit to our list
of faculty and their research interests at
http://www.indiana.edu/~soc/pe_faculty.shtml and graduate student interests
at
http://www.indiana.edu/~soc/pe_gradstudents.shtml.
