The Department of Sociology at Yale University offers a 6-year Ph.D. program in Sociology. The PhD program in Sociology prepares students for research and teaching careers. As most graduates teach at colleges and universities, others take up research positions in government agencies, medical and health centers, consulting firms, or other non-profit or research environments.
The work of graduate students is directed to one or more of the following groups of departments:
- comparative and historical sociology;
- culture/knowledge;
- economic sociology and economic organizations;
- family/gender/gender;
- global, regional and transnational sociology;
- health, medicine and biological and social interactions;
- law and criminology;
- methods;
- political sociology and social movements;
- ethnicity and origin;
- social networks;
- Social classes;
- the theory.
Postgraduate students in the department often join one or more workshops, programs and centers during their time in the department. Such activities provide a center of gravity for the educational and academic community.
Some of the available centers and workshops include:
- Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS);
- Center for Experimental Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI);
- Center for Historical Investigation and Social Sciences (CHESS);
- Comparative Research Workshop (CRW);
- Human Nature Laboratory (HNL);
- Macmillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society;
- policy lab;
- Urban Ethnography Project (UEP);
- Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS).