埃默里（Emory）的社会学博士课程设有致力于研究和教学的国际公认教师，旨在为学生提供一系列学术和研究职业的准备，高水平的师生互动和出版以及广泛的跨学科联系。e在以下主要实质领域提供严格的理论，研究设计和统计培训，以及广泛的准备工作：比较政治经济学和全球分析：政治社会学，政治经济学，全球发展与变化，社会运动，革命，世界体系，福利国家。文化：大众传媒，宗教，社会变革，世界文化，音乐，文学和艺术，大众文化，身份建构。社会心理学：人际关系和群体过程，地位和权力，种族态度，正义，合法性，情感，身份过程，犯罪原因，
Emory's doctoral program in Sociology features an internationally recognized faculty dedicated to both research and teaching, to preparing students for a range of academic and research careers, to high levels of faculty-student interaction and publishing, and to extensive interdisciplinary connections. e provide rigorous training in theory, research design, and statistics, as well as extensive preparation in these major substantive areas: Comparative political economy and global analysis: political sociology, political economy, global development and change, social movements, revolutions, world-systems, welfare states. Culture: mass media, religion, social change, world culture, music, literature, and the arts, popular culture, identity construction. Social psychology: interpersonal and group processes, status and power, racial attitudes, justice, legitimacy, emotions, identity processes, causes of crime, health and well being. Social inequality: education, complex organization, work and industry, medical sociology, gender, race, class, and ethnicity.