AREAS OF EXPERTISE

The following is a list of 113 areas of expertise compiled by the American Sociological Association for the 1996 edition of the Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. The list is not meant to be exhaustive but it does include many relevant areas of sociology that develop over recent years.

Aging/Social Gerontology
Alcohol and Drugs
Anthropology
Applied Research
Applied Sociology/Evaluation Research
Art/Music
ASA (MOST) Minority Opportunities Through School Transformation

Biosociology
Borderland Studies

Children and Youth
Collective Behavior/Social Movements
Community
Community and Environment
Comparative Sociology/Macrosociology
Comparative Sociology/Historical Sociology
Conflict Resolution
Consumer Behavior
Crime and Social Control
Criminal Justice
Criminology/Delinquency
Cultural Sociology

Demography
Development
Deviance/Delinquency
Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization
Disabilities

Economy and Society
Education
Education and Work
Emotions
Environmental Sociology
Ethnomethodology

Family

Gender
Gender/Work/and Family
Gerontology
Global Inequality

Health Policy and Economics
History of Sociology/Social Thought
Human Ecology
Human Services

Immigration
Individual in a Social World
Industrial Sociology
Inequality
Interactional Sociology
Interpretive

Knowledge

Language/Social Linguistics
Latina/o Sociology
Law and Society
Leisure/Sports/Recreation

Marriage and Family Therapy
Mass Communication/Public Opinion
Mathematical Sociology
Medical Sociology
Mental Health
Methodology
Methodology: Qualitative
Methodology: Quantitative
Microcomputing
Migration and Immigration
Military Sociology

Occupations/Professions
Organizations: Formal and Complex
Organizations: Non-Profit
Organizations: Social and Complex
Organizations and Institutions
Organizations/Work/Occupations

Pastoral Planning and Research
Peace and War
Penology/Corrections
Policy Analysis/Public Policy
Political Economy
Political Sociology
Power and Inequality
Race/Class/Gender
Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Rational Choice
Religion
Research Methods
Rural Sociology

Science and Technology
Sex and Gender
Sexuality and Homosexuality
Small Groups
Social Change
Social Control
Social Inequality
Social Issues
Social Networks
Social Organization
Social Problems
Social Psychology
Social Welfare/Social Work
Sociological Practice
Sociology of Agriculture
Sociology of Gambling
Southwest Borderland Studies
Statistics
Stratification/Mobility
Survey Research

Theory/Social Thought

Undergraduate Education/Teaching
Urban Child Research
Urban Sociology

Violence
Violence and Social Conflict
Visual Sociology

Work and Family
Work and Labor Markets
Work/Industry/Organization
World Conflict

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