Department of Sociology

Qualifying Portfolio and Defense (QPD) Areas

Modified from American Sociological Association Current Sections

  • Aging and the Life Course

  • Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco

  • Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity

  • Animals and Society

  • Asia and Asian America

  • Body and Embodiment

  • Children and Youth

  • Communication and Media

  • Community Sociology

  • Comparative and Historical Sociology

  • Consumers and Consumption

  • Criminology

  • Culture

  • Demography

  • Development

  • Deviance

  • Disability

  • Economic Sociology

  • Education

  • Emotions

  • Environmental Sociology

  • Ethnomethodology

  • Evolution and Biology

  • Family

  • Gender

  • Global and Transnational Sociology

  • Human Rights

  • Immigration

  • Inequality

  • Labor

  • Latino/a Sociology

  • Law

  • Marxist Sociology

  • Mathematical Sociology

  • Medical Sociology

  • Mental Health

  • Methodology

  • Organizations

  • Peace, War, and Social Conflict

  • Political Economy of the World-System

  • Political Sociology

  • Race, Gender, and Class

  • Race and Ethnicity

  • Rationality and Society

  • Religion

  • Science, Knowledge, and Technology

  • Sexualities

  • Social Movements and Collective Action

  • Social Psychology

  • Sociolinguistics

  • Theory

  • Urban Sociology

  • Work and Occupations