Management and Organizations and Sociology PhD

Northwestern University

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In Evanston (USA)

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  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Evanston (USA)

The doctoral program in Management and Sociology combines the Kellogg School’s Management and Organization department’s expertise in organization theory with the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Sociology department’s strengths in economic, comparative-historical and cultural sociology. The joint program attracts students who want to study business and non-profit organizations using a sociological perspective, or who wish to apply management and organizational theory to core problems in sociology such as social movements, the production of culture, social structure, gender and race inequality. It is also an attractive option for students that seek to study in a rigorous way topics at the intersection of economy and society such as social enterprise and innovation, globalization and economic development.

The program’s research and career advantages build on the possibilities that come with applying disciplinary training to the new intellectual space between management and sociological theory. The formal degree synthesizes competencies of both programs, creates formal connections that facilitate a student’s access to faculty and department resources in a way that would be difficult through an informal sampling of courses; and furnishes students with an expanded choice of career and research options in professional schools and schools of arts and sciences.
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The program celebrates theoretical and methodological pluralism, and linkages between theory and practice. The rich intellectual heritage of economic sociology and organization theory include research about diverse forms of organizations and markets, their participants and management, organization-environment relations, and organizing processes. Theoretical perspectives include classical theories of bureaucracy, power, strategic choice, resource dependence, organizational ecology, institutional processes, social movements, and networks

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Subjects

  • Social Movements
  • Economic Sociology
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  • Sociology
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Course programme

Management and Organizations and Sociology Degree Requirements

The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in The Graduate School Policy Guide.

PhD Course Requirements

To complete the doctoral program, the following courses must be taken (waivers and substitution with the approval of both program advisors):

1. Two seminars in sociological theory from the following:

  • SOCIOL - 406-1 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis
  • SOCIOL - 406-2 Modern Theory in Sociological Analysis
  • SOCIOL - 406-3 Contemporary Theory in Sociological Analysis

2. Two organizational analysis seminars:

  • MORS 425-1 Behavior in Organization Systems
  • MORS 425-2 Organizations in their Environments

3. Six seminars in social organization from the following (at least 3 in Sociology and 2 in MORS):

  • SOCIOL - 408 Sociology of Law
  • SOCIOL - 416 New Perspectives on Gender in Society
  • SOCIOL - 420 Sociology of Culture
  • SOCIOL - 437 Economic Sociology
  • SOCIOL - 439 Comparative and Historical Sociology
  • SOCIOL - 440 Stratification, Race and Gender
  • SOCIOL - 441 Social Organization
  • SOCIOL - 476 Topics in Sociological Analysis (can be repeated for credit)
  • MORS - 424-1 The Individual and the Organization
  • MORS - 424-2 Social Processes in Organizations
  • MORS - 520/530 MORS Electives Seminar (can be repeated for credit)

4. Two method seminars:

  • SOCIOL - 403 Field Methods
  • MORS - 426 Macro-Organizational Research Methods.

5.Three statistics courses

  • Basic descriptive and inferential statistics, linear and non-linear regression, event history analysis, time series modeling, network analysis, or other quantitative methods course depending on research needs and prior training. Can be taken at any Northwestern Department.

6.Seminar in College Teaching

  • SOCIOL - 570. This seminar, or its equivalent, is required to TA for undergraduate sociological classes.

7.Graduate Research Seminar (MORS) and Proseminar (Sociology)

  • Students are required to participate in these not-for-credit seminars.
Other PhD Degree Requirements
  • Examinations: preliminary examination taken in second year
  • Research/Projects: research paper begun at end of first year and completed by end of second year; should showcase student's mastery of substantive area and provide demonstration of original empirical research on a question drawn from both departments
  • PhD Dissertation: for admission to candidacy, presentation of dissertation proposal to qualifying examination committee consisting of faculty members from both departments and appointed by The Graduate School
  • Final Evaluations: none specified

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