Graduate School

Sociology

Sociology

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Degree offered
M.A., Ph.D.
Faculty working with students
23
Students
46
Students receiving assistantships or scholarships:
 
Priority deadline
Fall - January 10
Test required
GRE; TOEFL or IELTS (international students only)

Admission Requirements

In order to apply for admission to the graduate program in sociology, you must apply for admission to the Graduate School at Washington State University. In addition to the materials required by the Graduate School, the department also requires GRE scores, 3 letters of recommendation, a writing sample, and a brief statement of your professional interests and goals, all of which are also to be submitted to the Graduate School.

Program Description

The department supports a wide range of student interests, and provides a foundation in theory, methods, and statistics. We offer six general areas of research specialization:

  • crime and deviance, social control and social justice (criminal justice system, micro and macro studies of criminality and delinquency, social norms);
  • environment, technology and community, (risk, rural and urban communities, global environmental impacts, environmental justice);
  • work, organizations, and labor markets (work and family, social networks, labor market inequality, transition to work);
  • comparative political and social change (social movements, global political economy, the state);
  • social inequality (gender, race/ethnicity, class);
  • and families, population, and life course (union formation, transition to parenthood, transition to adulthood, identity).

 

Substantial faculty interests also exist in other areas of the discipline. We encourage students to nurture broad intellectual sensibilities. The department maintains seminars and colloquia that expose students to a full range of research and debate.

Department of Sociology

Contact Information 

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Washington State University
PO Box 644020
Pullman, WA 99164-4020
Telephone: 509-335-8773
Fax: 509-335-6419
E-mail: monicakj@wsu.edu

Department of Sociology

Contact Information
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4020
Telephone: 509-335-8773
Fax: 509-335-6419
e-mail: monicakj@wsu.edu

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