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Sociology

Graduate Program Summary

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Graduate Degrees Offered

M.A.; Ph.D.
Specializations - what's a specialization?
  • Environmental Studies
  • Women's and Gender Studies (Ph.D.)
  • Survey Research
Areas of Concentration
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Inequalities: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender
  • Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse
  • Survey Research and Methods
Additional Areas of Study
  • Crime and Deviance
  • Demography
  • Sociology of Education
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Religion
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociological Theory
  • Aging and the Life Course



  

Sociology

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   Fall: January 15

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Description of Program

The Department of Sociology provides a unique opportunity to work with a strong group of active research scholars in the following areas: sociology of the family; inequalities: race, ethnicity, class and gender; and health, mental health, and substance abuse.

Resources and training opportunities include: major data sets that provide students with opportunities to do independent or collaborative research; outstanding survey research and statistics and methods training; excellent computer facilities; and a department library.

Regular colloquia are scheduled to consider issues and discuss research in the department's main areas of concentration and students are encouraged to do independent and collaborative research projects. Students also obtain significant teaching experience and participate in a series of formal seminars on professional development issues.

We have earned the national "SWS Seal of Excellence" for department climate that is welcoming to women and gender scholars, the UNL Chancellor's Commission on People of Color Department Award of Excellence, and the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women Award as well, for our outreach and achievement in these arenas. Eight of our faculty members teach courses affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies and the Ethnic Studies Department. In addition, we have strong ties with Environmental Studies and the Survey Research and Methodology program, and we have a long history of substantial grant support from a range of federal research agencies (currently NIH, NSF, NIMH, NIDA).



  

Graduate Bulletin

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Faculty and Research

David Brinkerhoff Family; Education
     Emeritus
Miguel Carranza Chicano and Latino Studies; Minority and Majority Relations; Sociology of Health; Immigrant Communities
Miguel Ceballos Health; International Migration; Race and Ethnic Studies; Demography
Jacob Cheadle Family; Statistical Methodology; Education
L. Janelle (Tomni) Dance Sociology of Education; Race and Ethnic Studies; Inequality; International Migration; Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods
Mary Jo Deegan Classical and Contemporary Theory; History of Sociology; Race Relations; Disability
Christina Falci Mental Health; Social Psychology; Gender; Family and Adolescence
Bridget Goosby Mental Health; Race and Ethnicity; Family; Poverty and Inequality
Kellie Hagewen Medical Sociology; Demography; Race, Ethnic, and Minority Inequalities
Dan Hoyt Mental Health; Research Methods; Deviance; Family
James Kimberly Theory; Small Groups; Social Psychology
     Emeritus
Lisa Kort-Butler Criminology and Deviance; Mental Health; Gender
Julia McQuillan Quantitative Methods; Gender; Family; Health; Stratification
Helen Moore Race, Class, and Gender Inequalities
Kristen Olson Survey Methodology, Interviewer Effects, Nonresponse and Measurement Errors
Philip Schwadel Religion; Politics; Social Movements; Contextual Analysis
Jack Siegman Political Sociology; Race, Ethnicity and Minority Relations
     Emeritus
Jolene Smyth Nonresponse; Questionnaire Design; Gender; Family
Kimberly Tyler Mental Health; Child Abuse and Neglect; Victimization; Foster and Homeless Youth; Adolescent High Risk Behaviors
Les Whitbeck Family; Drug and Alcohol Prevention; High Risk Children and Adolescents
Lynn White Family; Demography
      Emeritus
Hugh Whitt Religion; Deviance; Quantitative Methods
J. Allen Williams, Jr. Environmental Sociology; Family; Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity Inequalities
Susan Wortmann Gender; Theory; Religion
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