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The Department of Sociology at Rice University aims to educate undergraduate and graduate students and further on-going sociological research. As a member of the School of Social Sciences, we offer four-year Bachelor of the Arts degrees and Ph.D. degrees. For those seeking further education/research-opportunities past a doctoral level, we also offer a post-doctoral program.

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Chavez to study migration with award from Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Rice University sociologist Sergio Chavez will expand his research on internal and international migration during the next academic year, thanks to a career-enhancement award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Professional culture contributes to gender wage inequality in engineering

Women engineers are underpaid for their contributions to technical activities, due to cultural ideologies in the engineering profession, according to Rice University research.

Multiracial children of single mothers more likely to live in poverty

Multiracial children of single mothers are more likely to live in poverty than white and Asian children of single mothers, but less likely than Hispanic, African-American and Native American children of single moms, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University and Pennsylvania State University.