425 PhD programmes in Sociology

The Culture and Society programme offered by Linköping University develops advanced research expertise in cultural processes, social analysis, and interdisciplinary humanities perspectives.

The PhD in Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University is an innovative interdisciplinary degree which combines the theories and practices of three key social science disciplines; geography, sociocultural anthropology, and sociology.

The Service Studies programme offered by Lund University develops advanced research expertise in analysing services and their role in economic, social, cultural, and spatial processes.

This Sociology programme is offered by the Department of Sociology within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.

Death, Dying and Bereavement has been a major research and teaching theme in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University UK for over 20 years.

The Sociology programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London supports sociologically oriented enquiry across a range of departments, drawing on interdisciplinary approaches united by a distinctively sociological perspective.

Multicultural Life, Citizenship, Difference, Political Conflict and Social Divisions research is part of the Sociology research group at The Open University UK.

Join one of the leading Anthropology departments in the UK where a diverse community of expert faculty and doctoral students carry out cutting-edge research, all in this Social Anthropology prorgamme at the University of Sussex.

The focus of our Intercultural Research at Heriot-Watt University is on the interface between cultures. It seeks to build understanding of interactions between different cultures on a wide variety of levels, including sub-cultures, gender cultures and linguistic cultures. 

Through the Sociology MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter, you'll have the opportunity to undertake advanced postgraduate research in a friendly, interdisciplinary, collaborative, and highly productive community. 

Mississippi State University has a longstanding emphases in Criminology, Rural Sociology, Social Demography and Population Studies, and Social Inequality and Stratification. The faculty are interested in both advanced quantitative and advanced qualitative methodologies. This  Sociology PhD program from Mississippi State University.

Welcome to Sorbonne University's Interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy program. Immerse yourself in a transformative academic journey at one of the world's renowned institutions for higher learning. Sorbonne University invites you to explore the boundless possibilities of research and innovation through our interdisciplinary doctoral program.

Conduct pioneering sociological research in a globally renowned department. Learn more at the Sociology programme from London School of Economics and Political Science.

The Ph.D. program in Sociology at Baylor University is collegial, rigorous, and supportive.  A defining feature of the program is mentorship. 

This multidisciplinary doctoral Sociology of Education program at the New York University  will equip you with critical theoretical foundations of education and social change as you develop expertise in qualitative and quantitative sociological research methods, sociological theory, and the sociology of education.

Our scholarly community supports graduate students’ development of a specialized Sociology research program at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Doctoral Program in Social and Engineering Systems (SES) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a unique graduate research program focused on addressing concrete and societally significant problems by combining the analytical tools and methods of statistics and information sciences with engineering and the social sciences.

The Department of Social Policy and Intervention at University of Oxford offers an interdisciplinary DPhil in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation and welcomes students from across the world.

The Graduate Program on Global Society at The University of Tokyo is dedicated to bringing together students from across the humanities and social sciences interested in studying, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the phenomena and practices that constitute the unfolding process of globalization. 

Embark on a sociological exploration at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities with the Sociology doctoral program.