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The graduate program in Sociology offers broad training with a concentration in several areas of expertise: culture; family, life course, and sexualities; global inequality and change; immigration; population; organizations, occupations, and labor; social inequality: race/ethnicity, gender, and class/stratification; social movements and political sociology; social networks; and the study of democracy. We are committed to scholarship that is both theoretically informed and empirically grounded. Our orientation is multidisciplinary, and we actively forge meaningful links with other disciplines on campus and beyond. We also embrace a broad range of methods – including ethnography, experiments, formal modeling, historical-comparative analysis, and surveys – to pursue answers to questions of substantive and theoretical importance. The program offers both an MA and a Ph.D., although pursuit of the latter is encouraged and emphasized. The Sociology Department at UC Irvine presently consists of 30 full-time faculty members, more than half of whom have joined within the last three years. Members of the Department are all engaged in empirical research, and publish in a range of outlets, including books and scholarly articles.
Special Resources for Graduate Students: Graduate students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of interdisciplinary research centers and units, including the Center for the Study of Democracy , the Program in Global Peace and Conflict Studies , the Center for Organizational Research, and the Center for Law, Society & Culture, the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy, and research groups in state studies, demography, and labor studies. The Sociology Department is closely linked to Women's Studies and various Ethnic Studies programs. Research and funding opportunities are also available through UC-wide programs like Pacific Rim Studies (which is based on the Irvine campus). The journal Social Networks is edited at UCI's School of Social Sciences and specialized training in network analysis is available. State-of-the-art computing facilities, including an excellent consulting service, are available to students. The campus library system is first-rate, contains a complete collection in sociology, and, is connected with on-line access to the best composite library collection in the world through the combined resources of the UC system libraries and UC e-links. Students in the program come from diverse educational, ethnic, and social backgrounds, and represent many geographical regions and nations. Fellowship, Grant, and Funding Opportunites Master's Degree in Social Sciences or Social Ecology, With a concentration in Demographic and Social Analysis The 9-month Master's degree Program in Demographic and Social Analysis has offered specialized training in the research skills to address practical problems confronting society, business, government, and the nonprofit sector. The concentration emphasizes the Pacific Rim and issues defining Southern California's population, such as immigration, changing household and family structure, racial and economic inequalities, and the impact of local and regional population growth and redistribution. Informed by the interdisciplinary field of demography, the program draws on faculty and courses largely in the Schools of Social Sciences and Social Ecology. The M.A. requires 36 units of study and an oral exit exam, and may be completed within nine months. Additional information and graduate applications are available from:
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