Graduate Program
Sociology at Nebraska is research oriented, providing training in pure and applied research. In the master's program students receive training in research methods and theory and pursue a broad course of studies before writing a thesis. At the Ph.D. level students acquire a more specialized knowledge of sociology.
Main Areas of Concentration:
- Family
- Health/mental health/substance abuse
- Social Inequalities: race, ethnicity, class, gender
- Survey research/quantitative methods
Additional Areas of Study:
- Aging and the life course
- Crime and deviance
- Demography
- Education
- Environmental sociology
- Religion
- Social change
- Social psychology
- Sociological theory
The department offers especially strong programs in the sociology of the family; inequalities; race, ethnicity, class and gender; and sociology of health. Biweekly student-faculty study groups meet to consider issues and discuss research in these areas. Graduate students in the department also obtain significant teaching experience and participate in a formal seminar on college teaching issues.
