学校主页http://www.uchicago.edu/
系主页http://sociology.uchicago.edu/
方向:
Sociology of Culture
Organizations
Sociology of Education
Social Theory
Gender and Family
Stratification
Sociology of Health and Medicine
Sociology of Transnational Processes
Methods and Models
Urban Sociology
Population
www.gter.net
文化社会学:
芝加哥的文化社会学是一种广义的文化社会学研究,他们的网页上有这样一段话:
Favoring a perspective which understands culture as the ways in which human beings as social actors make sense of the world and their lives, we believe that cultural sociology is not limited to the analysis of institutions defined as "cultural" but instead refers to a dimension permeating all of social life.
这个特色也体现在此方向聚集了几个相近学科的faculty,如神学院和社会学系共同聘请的Martin Riesebrodt、人类学系的John Comaroff。这一取向也是美国文化社会学跨学科发展的大势所趋。
www.gter.net
比较社会学
该系对于这一方向的称呼是Sociology of Transnational Processes。主要研究全球化背景下城市、民族国家、移民、文化等诸方面问题,这一方向是新老结合的产物。比如城市社会学、移民等是芝加哥的传统领域。而在此基础上芝大研究者采用了新的方法在全球化视野下对此进行研究。其方法论取向有社会单元分析、网络分析和民族志研究等方法。