425 PhD programmes in Sociology

The primary focus of the Sociology program at the University of Delaware is the preparation of members of the next generation of sociologists and criminologists by emphasizing systematic training in theory and research methodology as well as teaching.

The Sociology and Social Policy programme offered by Lingnan University develops advanced research expertisethrough interdisciplinary analysis of social issues, inequality, and public policy.

The University of Milan takes pride in presenting the Economic Sociology, Organization, and Labor doctoral program, a distinguished academic venture that delves into the intricate relationships between economics, sociology, organizational dynamics, and labor studies.

The PhD degree in Sociology is offered within the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

In the Political and Social Sciences programme offered at European University Institute (EUI) researchers will study the important issues of our time that social science can uniquely address, with PhD opportunities across politics and comparative politics, political theory, international relations, and sociology.

University of Klagenfurt offers the Social Sciences and Economics programme. The cross-curricular courses complement the subject-specific teaching events and thus expand the range of doctoral-level classes. 

Advanced Quantitative Methods at University of Glasgow offers a specialism focused on quantitative literacy in social sciences.

Our Sociology program at Purdue University prepares students to become researchers, scholars, and teachers through a well-balanced curriculum comprising theory and methods that enable students to conduct sociological research at the forefront of the field.

Sociology’s postgraduate culture centres on students completing a PhD. Abertay University has been a key partner in a number of large European grants specifically examining the interaction between technology, society and social innovation, as well as exploring social network dynamics for collective awareness.

Epistemology of the Humanities and Social Sciences from University of Ljubljana is very problem-oriented. Its purpose is to show the logic behind theoretical processes in the humanities and social sciences. It analyses the way theories create their own sphere of problems and raise questions, and the way they open up new prospects for theoretical work and renounce the rest.

The Doctoral Programme of Social and Behavioural Sciences is part of the University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS). The field of a Doctor of Social Sciences can be philosophy, contemporary history, social policy, social work, sociology, economic sociology, political science, sociology of education, or East Asian Studies. 

The Ph.D. program in Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware is designed to prepare the next generation of scholars for positions as researchers, professors, and leaders in early childhood, human development, family sciences, human services and related fields.

As a self-motivated and talented sociology PhD scholar, you'll find a rewarding array of intellectual and professional challenges through course work, seminars, qualifying examinations, teaching and research assistantships, conference presentations and dissertation writing. We offer a Sociology degree at the University of Guelph.

The emphasis of the PhD Program in Organizational Behavior at University of British Columbia is on developing research-oriented academics who study problems related to organizations, including the effects of management practices on people, between people within organizational settings, and between organizations themselves. 

The Sociomedical Sciences program from Columbia University is designed for individuals who wish to combine training in history or in a social or behavioral science discipline and to study questions significant to public health and medicine. 

The Migrations, Diasporas, Transnational Communities discipline at The Open University UK has extensive interests and an international profile in this field. It is engaged in a number of lived-experience, policy-, welfare- and criminologically related research projects.

Choosing Sociology at the University of South Carolina for your postgraduate studies opens up a range of career prospects from research or education to communications or government service, and much more in the public and private sectors.

University of Plymouth’s Sociology programme has a long and distinguished history and we have an international reputation for research excellence.

The Social Policy and Criminology - Crime, Harm, Criminalisation and Criminal Justice research group at The Open University UK is recognised for critical scholarship, that challenges assumptions about ‘crime’, ‘the criminal’ and/or ‘justice’ and critically interrogates criminology as a discipline.

This Feminism, Law and Gender research cluster at The Open University UK provides an intellectual and collaborative space for academics, visiting researchers and PhD students interested in gender-focused and feminist analysis of the law.