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MIT Sloan's Economic Sociology (ESP) is a new PhD concentration aimed at training scholars who conduct leading-edge research that applies sociological tools and concepts to gain a deeper understanding of organizations and the economy. The program reflects the confluence of two trends that have gained increasing salience over the past twenty years:

• the increasing demand in business schools for faculty with sociological training; and
• the rapid growth of economic sociology as a sub discipline of sociology.

Each of these trends represents the growing recognition that the sociological conception of the economy sheds unique light on economic processes. And yet the increasing demand for economic sociology has not been met with a corresponding increase in supply. ESP is designed to help fill this gap.

Note to potential applicants: An excellent way of deciding whether to apply to the ESP is by reading articles in top sociology journals (e.g., American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology) and secondarily at top journals in organizations and management (e.g., Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science), especially those authored by ESP faculty, and deciding whether you want to write articles like these.

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MITs Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) trains scholars to study science and technology as activities situated in social and cultural contexts. HASTS faculty examine expert as well as popular engagement with the processes and products of technological and scientific work, and conduct research across a spectrum of geographical areas and historical periods.

HASTS faculty and students employ historical, ethnographic, and sociological methods and theories to investigate a wide range of topics, including:

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Economic sociology & organizations.

Clem Aeppli

Research Interests: Wealth & income inequality; work & organizations; capitalism; race & racial inequality; social theory... Read more about Clem Aeppli

David Arbeláez

Research Interests:   Inequality, intergenerational mobility, organizations, higher education... Read more about David Arbeláez

Emma Bedell Bogler

Research Interests: Cultural sociology, social network analysis, media studies, computational text analysis, political sociology, inequality, economic sociology... Read more about Emma Bedell Bogler

Cherrie Nicole Bucknor

Research Interests: Social stratification and inequality; social policy; race and ethnicity; gender; labor and social movements; labor markets; political economy; crime and punishment; quantitative methods... Read more about Cherrie Nicole Bucknor

Minjin Chae

Research Interests: Family, Gender, Work and Employment, Organization ... Read more about Minjin Chae

Marissa Combs

Research Interests: Sociology of Education, Social Network Analysis, Organizations, Alternative Schooling Movements, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Political Sociology... Read more about Marissa Combs

Research Interests: Work and organizations; Inequality and stratification; Labor movements; Digitally mediated labor; Science and technology studies; Mixed methods ... Read more about Nayun Eom

Daniel Alain Evrard

Research Interests: Political Economy; Urban Sociology; Economic Geography; Social Impacts of Economic and Climatic Change; Poverty and Inequality; Work, Labor Markets and the Labor Process; Social Theory; Comparative Sociology.

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Maleah Fekete

Research Interests:  Culture, Emotions, Gender, Mental Health, Social Networks, Theory... Read more about Maleah Fekete

Ohjae Gowen

Research Interests:  family, social demography, social stratification, gender, work and occupations, quantitative research methods

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Siobhan Greatorex-Voith

Research Interests:  Computational Social Science; Social Science Genomics; Stratification and Social Mobility; Educational Opportunity; Social Determinants of Health; Organizational Behavior; Social Demography; Research Methodology; Quantitative Methods; Experiments; Policy  ... Read more about Siobhan Greatorex-Voith

In Jeong Hwang

Research Interests : Aging; Family; Labor Markets; Demography; Social Stratification and Inequality; Quantitative Methods... Read more about In Jeong Hwang

Andrew Byrne Keefe

Research Interests:  Inequality; Sociology of Punishment; Criminal Law and Procedure; Political Economy; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Social Theory.... Read more about Andrew Byrne Keefe

Kwan Woo Kim

Research Interests: Economic sociology; globalization and inequality; diversity; cultural boundaries; quantitative methods... Read more about Kwan Woo Kim

Rachel Y. Kim

Research interests:  economic sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of work, sociology of professions, science & technology studies, qualitative methods

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The Ph.D. program is defined by a commitment to highly analytical sociology

The program trains graduate students to use a range of methods – quantitative and qualitative – and data – survey, administrative, experimental, interview, direct observation, and more – to answer pressing empirical questions and to advance important theoretical and policy debates.

The Ph.D. curriculum and degree requirements provide students with the methodological skills, substantive knowledge, and mentorship to make important and impactful contributions to sociological knowledge. The program guides Ph.D. students to work on ambitious, independent research projects about which students are passionate. Graduates finish the program well-positioned to be leaders in the field of sociology.

Economic Sociology Program (ESP)

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MIT Sloan's Economic Sociology (ESP) is a new Ph.D. concentration aimed at training scholars who conduct leading-edge research that applies sociological tools and concepts to gain a deeper understanding of organizations and the economy. The program reflects the confluence of two trends that have gained increasing salience over the past twenty years:

(a) the increasing demand in business schools for faculty with sociological training; and

(b) the rapid growth of economic sociology as a sub discipline of sociology.

Each of these trends represents the growing recognition that the sociological conception of the economy sheds unique light on economic processes. And yet the increasing demand for economic sociology has not been met with a corresponding increase in supply. ESP is designed to help fill this gap.

ESP places heavy emphasis on research. While students gain experience in the classroom and graduates should be ready to teach in various programs (see below), the faculty believe that the primary goal of PhD training is to acquaint the students with the processes by which great social science research is conducted.

The substantive research focus is on general mechanisms of social organization. While we believe that all researchers must have a deep understanding of the specific contexts that we study, our primary reason for studying a particular case (i.e., an organization or industry) is to use it as a “strategic research site” for understanding social mechanisms and processes that are present in various forms in many different contexts.

The ESP is catholic with regard to method. We believe that qualitative research (i.e., fieldwork, case studies, ethnography); quantitative research (e.g., surveys, archival databases, social network analysis) and modeling (e.g., systems dynamics, game theory, agent-based models) are each quite useful depending on one's research objective.

ESP is an integral part of the set of Ph.D. concentrations that comprise the Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT Sloan. These are: Organization Studies; Institute of Work and Employment Research; and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The ESP overlaps with each of these in terms of: (a) the substantive focus of research; (b) the research methods employed; (c) the types of students that the programs attract; (d) as well as the faculty conducting PhD training.

In evaluating applicants, the ESP faculty looks for evidence of: (a) a strong research orientation; (b) skills and experience relevant to economic sociology; and (c) an understanding of academic social science research culture.

Note to potential applicant: An excellent way of deciding whether to apply to the ESP is by reading articles in top sociology journals (e.g., American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology) and secondarily at top journals in organizations and management (e.g., Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science), especially those authored by ESP faculty, and deciding whether you want to write articles like these.

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The Duke University Department of Sociology is committed to maintaining its Ph.D. program at the highest level of quality, and entrance into our program is highly competitive. To those who are accepted and enroll at Duke, we offer an intensive program of study, a supportive research environment, and the opportunity to learn the craft of scholarship from Duke's productive and diverse faculty. Our placements of recent Ph.D.s in excellent jobs within academia and elsewhere is for us a source of pride and professional satisfaction.

The Sociology Department at Duke University believes in fostering an inclusive environment where differences are respected, valued and integrated into every facet of the graduate experience. Through our commitment to diversity, we hope to create an atmosphere conducive to high quality education and research that supports the broad spectrum of differences of our students, faculty and staff. 

The Department of Sociology offers a challenging and rigorous program of study and research training leading to the Ph.D. degree. Although graduate students headed for the Ph.D. receive a Master’s degree at an appropriate point in their graduate careers here, our program of study is organized primarily for Ph.D. candidates. 

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Our research critically interrogates relationships between economic, political, social, spatial and cultural change

LSE is one of the world's leading social science universities. Students benefit from the interdisciplinary environment, an international student body and a global perspective. 

PhD students are very much part of the department's research culture. They are active members of our community and are involved with staff in relevant seminars and research workshops. 

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We also offer a  Visiting Research Student  programme which allows students pursuing research at other institutions to attend courses and benefit from the expertise of the LSE faculty, Library and academic support services. 

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Funding is available from a variety of School administered sources. For more information, please visit our  MPhil/PhD admissions frequently asked questions page. 

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Economic Sociology Lab

Training in theory construction linked to empirical research, 1987–2023.

ver the past three-and-a-half decades, graduate students from Sociology and other social science departments have participated in the Economic Sociology Lab, which has provided training in theory construction linked to empirical research. The Lab has carried out collaborative research in different substantive subfields, employing an advanced mixed methods approach.

Lab-Based Research Projects

Early research.

In the late 1980s, the Lab received a grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on immigrant labor markets. Scott Sernau and Sijin Su served as graduate research assistants (GRAs) on this project. The Lab also contributed a socioeconomic dimension to the Cornell–China–Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health and Environment, the comprehensive study of diet, lifestyle, and disease in China led by T. Colin Campbell in Nutrition Science at Cornell, Sir Richard Peto at Oxford University and Dr. Junshi Chen of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The Lab designed a survey research instrument that was added to the expanded 1989-90 re-survey of selected families in eighty-five counties in rural China, so as to assess socioeconomic conditions. Yang Cao, Lisa Keister, Rebecca Matthews, Zun Tang and Raymond Lieka participated in the design of this survey component and the subsequent analysis of the economy and society survey data. In 1993, the NSF funded survey research on institutional change in the transition to a market economy in urban China. Frank Young in Development Sociology and Banoo Parpia, a senior research associate who later earned a Ph.D. in Sociology, contributed to the graduate training and research. These Lab-based research projects generated numerous articles, accepted by the American Sociology Review (six, from 1987 to 1996), American Journal of Sociology (two), Theory and Society (two), Ethnic and Racial Studies (two), Social Forces , Administrative Science Quarterly , Annual Review of Sociology , Social Science Research , Rationality and Society , Economic Development and Cultural Change , Journal of Asian Studies , and also an award-winning edited volume, The New Institutionalism in Sociology . Nearly all publications were co-authored with graduate student members of the Lab.

“The Lab was a recognized and invaluable incubator of important pioneering work in the field and as we all know, launched and generated key new directions, approaches and ideas in Economic Sociology. I for one, feel privileged and fortunate to have been part of this effort. Hope we can commemorate and celebrate this together at a festschrift for your work in the near future.” —Banoo Parpia, Cornell University International Alumni Affairs and Development

The Emergence of Rational-Legal Capitalism in China’s Yangzi River Delta Region

In 1996, the John Templeton Foundation began its generous funding of a twelve-year longitudinal study (1995-2017) of the emergence of rational-legal capitalism in China’s Yangzi River Delta region (Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces). Sonja Opper, a 2001 post-doctoral fellow from the University of Tubingen, participated in the study. Graduate student research assistants included Yujun Wang, Christopher Yenkey, Li Ma, Paul Lee, Lisha Liu, Daniel DellaPosta, and Mario Molina. Completed questionnaires and data for four waves of survey research (2006, 2009, 2012 and 2016) were sent to the Economic Sociology Lab, where they are currently stored. As a GRA, Yujun Wang (now an associate professor of Sociology at Renmin University in Beijing) worked closely with the Shanghai Academy of Social Science survey research firm in reviewing the data entry and quality. In turn, Lisha Liu (now an assistant professor at Jiao Tung University in Shanghai) led a team of Cornell undergraduate research assistants to continue and complete this work for the final fourth wave of the Yangzi Delta survey. In this period, research articles co-authored with Lab members were published in Annual Review of Sociology, Social Science Research (2) , Theory and Society , Organization Science, Daedalus, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and Sociological Science . Mario Molina is first author of an article published recently in Organization Science analyzing a laboratory-in-the-field behavioral experiment conducted as part of the Yangzi Delta study. In China, Zhilin Liu, Professor of Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and Yujun Wang have edited a volume of published articles produced by the Lab, which has been submitted to Peking University Press.

Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China , co-authored with Sonja Opper, is based on the advanced mixed methods theory-driven approach of the Economic Sociology Lab. It won multiple best book awards including the George R. Terry Best Book Award from the Academy of Management.

The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy in New York City and Sweden

In the 2010s, another study, funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, focused on the emergence of the knowledge economy in New York City and Sweden. This Lab-based research project (PI, Sonja Opper; co-PI, Victor Nee) involved Michael Siemon, Daniel Della Posta, Lucas Drouhot, Yujin Oh, and a Cornell undergraduate research assistant, Sirui Wang, who completed his PhD in 2023 at the Wharton School. Sirui and is lead author on two of three completed research reports.

Additional Lab Members

Other Lab members who actively participated in weekly research meetings included Paul Ingram, Arnout Van De Rijt, Hilary Holbrow, David Dornisch, Qi Li, Scott Golder, Shuo Zhang, Erik Voltz, Zhilin Liu, Yujin Oh, Yanmin Gu, and Christiana Agawu.

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“A hardhitting economic sociology would attempt to draw on the best of sociology and economics, and to unite interests and social relations in one and the same analysis.” — Richard Swedberg

PhD in Political Economy

The field of political economy applies tools such as game theory and empirical methods for causal inference to the study of political institutions and behavior. The University of Chicago’s new PhD program in political economy offers an extraordinary opportunity to develop these skills in preparation for a career in academia. Staffed by an outstanding group of  faculty  in the Department of Political Science and the Harris School of Public Policy, this program provides accelerated training in formal theory and statistical methods alongside deep engagement with political science. With a supportive faculty, a  curriculum  expressly tailored to questions in political economy, immersion in the  rich seminar culture  of the University of Chicago, and strong financial support, students in this select program get an early start on research and writing. There is no better place to study political economy.

Faculty in political economy at Chicago have research interests in a broad range of empirical and theoretical topics. We encourage students to pursue research wherever their intellectual interests lie, whether that means working within an established scholarly tradition or exploring new topics from the perspective of political economy. Prospective students submit a single  application  directly to the Ph.D. program in political economy.

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Roberto M. Fernandez is a Professor Post Tenure of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Fernandez currently serves as the co-director of the Economic Sociology PhD Program and served as the head of the Behavioral and Policy Sciences area from 2008-2010. His research focuses on the areas of organizations, social networks, and race and gender stratification. Fernandez has extensive experience doing field research in organizations, including an exhaustive five-year case study of a plant retooling and relocation. His current research focuses on the organizational processes surrounding the hiring of new talent using data collected in 14 organizations. He is the author of more than 50 articles and research papers published in top academic journals in his field.

Fernandez holds a BA in sociology from Harvard University and an MA and a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.

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Kim, Minjae and Roberto Fernandez. Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 49, (2023): 177-193.

Bond, Brittany, and Roberto Fernandez. In Social Networks at Work , edited by Daniel J. Brass and Stephen P. Borgatti, 275-307. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.

Campero, Santiago, and Roberto Fernandez. Social Forces Vol. 97, No. 4 (2019): 1487-1516.

Fernandez, Roberto, and Brian Rubineau. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Vol. 5, No. 3 (2019): 88-102.

Hassink, Wolter H.J., and Roberto Fernandez. The Manchester School Vol. 86, No. 6 (2018): 816-839.

Sterling, Adina, and Roberto Fernandez. Management Science Vol. 64, No. 11 (2018): 5444-5460.

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