社会学哲学博士-人口

人口过程的研究对于了解我们周围的世界至关重要。出生，死亡，家庭形成和移民仍然是社会变革的重要指标。人口研究不仅涵盖人口变化的基本度量，而且还分析了这些变化的根源和后果。社会学家通过关注社会过程和人口变化的影响来研究人口。如果公众听到婚姻正在作为一种制度而衰落，那么人口社会学家不仅会寻求确定婚姻率，还要询问其是否足以衡量家庭构成并研究哪些社会因素使婚姻发生变化。他们对生育率，死亡率，迁徙以及导致其发生变化的过程也采用了类似的方法。为了解决这些问题，在人口群体中进行研究生培训的重点是让学生在社会学理论和统计方
The Department of Sociology offers a Ph.D. program in Sociology. Particular emphases include social networks, gender, race/ethnicity, labor, social movements, family, migration, population, political economy, and states and global transformation. The program provides structured training in sociological theory, statistics, and qualitative and quantitative research methods. While the core of the program is sociological, it may also include an interdisciplinary component, incorporating links to anthropology, education, law, political science, history, criminology, and urban planning. Small entering cohorts ensure personalized attention for each student and guarantee access to professors, allowing for close mentorship relationships. Program faculty take diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to a variety of substantive issues, are committed to empirical research addressing central sociological issues, and are open to intellectual cross-pollination from cognate disciplines.<br><br>The study of population processes is critical to understanding the world around us. Births, deaths, household formation, and migration remain crucial indicators of social change. The study of population covers not only basic measurements of population change, but also analysis of the roots and ramifications of those changes.<br><br>Sociologists approach the study of population by focusing on the social processes and implications of demographic change. If the public hears that the marriage is waning as an institution, sociologists of population will seek not only to define a marriage rate, but ask how adequate it is for measuring family formation and examine what social factors make it change. They apply a similar lens to fertility, mortality, migration and the processes that cause variation in their occurrence. To address such questions, graduate training in the population cluster focuses on grounding students in both sociological theory and statistical methodology.