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At Case Western Reserve University, doctoral study is focused on three dynamic areas of sociological inquiry: the sociology of aging and the life course; health and medical sociology; research design and methods. Within these areas, students may focus on a wide range of specific topics, such as stress and coping, health disparities, the social construction of diagnosis and disease, and the interaction of race, class, gender, age and other factors as sources of social inequality. Graduate training includes a wide array of advanced quantitative, qualitative and action techniques taught through courses and one-on-one mentorship. Students learn to integrate theory and method and to apply them to specific substantive issues, which can range from urban problems to health practices of individuals to institutional care and reform.
Our doctoral students pursue their education in an intellectually rigorous and dynamic environment that also is informal and friendly. Study at CWRU provides exceptional opportunities for mentoring and close working relationships with faculty. These opportunities include meaningful hands-on involvement in research projects such as managing data collection, writing and publishing collaboratively with faculty, preparing grant applications for research funding, and presenting papers at national and international meetings.
As part of their research apprenticeships, students have the opportunity to participate in a range of empirical projects, including some that are supported by the National Institutes of Health. Our students also have opportunities to work with researchers in other schools, including the School of Medicine, the School of Law, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
Case Western Reserve University is uniquely situated in a bustling metropolitan area. The campus is located in University Circle, a 550-acre park-like setting that includes nearly 40 cultural, medical, educational, religious, and social service institutions including The Cleveland Orchestra and The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Article of Interest
Moments in the History of Gerontology
Gerontology at Case Western Reserve University: A History of Pioneering Scholarship
Published Spring 2005 in Contemporary Gerontology
Age and the Life Course
- Cumulative dis/advantage and inequality over the life course
- Inequality in retirement and the end of the work career
- Interplay between work and family
- Stress, trauma, proactivity, and well-being in late life
- Care-getting and caregiving during the final years of life
Medicine and Health Cares
- Race, class, and gender influences on physician decision-making
- Social construction of diseases and diagnoses
- Health communication and health care advocacy
- National and international health policy
Population and Individual Health
- Neighborhood and community influences on health
- Cancer survivorship
- Health and mortality disparities over the life course
- Disability trajectories in midlife and older adulthood
Social Inequality
- Urban poverty and quality of life
- Occupational sex segregation and the gendered pay gap
- Race, class, gender issues for poor and working class families
- Theory and ideology in medicine and science
Public Policy and Community Action
- International children's rights
- Law and social policy
- Action research and reform in long term care institutions
- Individual, institutional, and global responses to inequality
Specialties Offered
- Aging and the Life Course
- Medical Sociology
- Research Methodology and Design
Financial assistance is available in the form of university tuition waivers, research assistantships, and student employment on research grants.
For additional information and for admission application materials, please contact:
Professor Brian Gran
Assistant Professor
Graduate Director
Department of Sociology
224 Mather Memorial Bldg.
Phone: (216) 368-2694
brian.gran@case.edu
Professor Sue Hinze
Associate Professor
Associate Graduate Director
Women's Studies Program Faculty
Department of Sociology
223F Mather Memorial Bldg.
Phone: (216) 368-2702
susan.hinze@case.edu
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7124
Phone (216) 368-2700
Fax (216) 368-2676
http://www.case.edu/provost/gradstudies/
To apply online: http://www.case.edu/provost/gradstudies/appinfo.html
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