哈佛大学是全球领先的培训和指导下一代社会学家的中心之一。社会学系提供了几个研究生课程，分别获得社会学博士学位，社会学和社会政策博士学位以及组织行为博士学位。社会学研究生课程的目的是为学生做好学术研究和应用研究以及教学的准备。该计划结合了对社会理论和研究方法的重视以及发展每个学生自己的兴趣的机会。博士候选人应具备扎实的基础知识，使他们能够教授基础和高级社会学课程，并从事定量和定性研究。在社会学的几个子领域中对学生进行培训，在这些子领域中，教师具有专长。其中包括社会分层和不平等（包括种族和种族关系），复杂组织
This program is one of the top three sociology programs in the world and provides students with the tools to answer intellectual questions relating to the distribution of resources in society and to social organization.<br>Our faculty encourages you to become a creative independent researcher. During your graduate career, you will read broadly across fields and generate work that is theoretically, empirically, and analytically rigorous. The program provides advanced training in quantitative and qualitative research methods as well as mixed methods.<br><br>Students in the program have conducted research on a variety of projects, including investigating food insecurity in Atlanta, the social effects of climate change, and community policing in a public housing project.