Ladril

If you are interested in World Systems Theory, SUNY Binghamton is your best option.

There is more than you need to look at besides ranking when choosing a program. As far as I can tell, the German sociological scene is not as dominated by empirical approaches to sociology as is the case in the U.S. There are however, a few universities in Germany which try to follow the U.S. model, and their graduates receive substantial training in methods and statistics. Until recently, these were basically limited to the University of Cologne and the University of Mannheim (I don't keep up with Germany much, though, so things may have changed). Most other German universities have different views of what they consider good sociology. Until recently at least, German sociology was very much dominated by the follower camps of Ulrich Beck and Niklas Luhmann, so if you were not willing to become a follower of either you were pretty much out of luck.

This si not a topic I know a lot about, but UPenn has a program that might suit you: https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences has a summer school on organizations next year. Applications are due soon https://casbs.stanford.edu/org-and-effectiveness-2018

Questions you must ask yourself: are they people who publish routinely with students? (some sacred cows never do). Are they people who have a reputation for being difficult to deal/work with? Don't be afraid to do research on this. If the answer is no to the first question and yes for the second, you should definitely reconsider your choice of program. The above may sound obvious, but way too many people make decisions based only on name and prestige. That is a mistake.

This is standard these days, and you should not take it as an indication of anything that the faculty are doing their job trying to attract students to their program. Universities do compete against each other for students, and courting them is a way to ensure they will get the best students they can. Once you get to your chosen program the attitude of the same faculty will often be completely different - you will have to prove yourself, and the faculty will continuously compare your work ethic, formality, enthusiasm, and quality of work to those of the other students.

Any department with a lots of sociologists interested in "culture" would be a good fit.

Ohio State Sociology is strong in crim.

As i see it, the OP did not say they were having a tough time finding a department with quantitative work, but rather that they were looking for a place where that work is combined with qualitative analysis and/or theory. That is not always easy to find; most departments ask you to identify a narrow niche early on.

Wisconsin-Madison used to be the one of the go-to places for people with your interests.

Hi! My knowledge of this area is very scarce, so I can only offer a few vague hints. Sorry I can´t be more helpful. Rather than sociolinguistics, your interests sound to me like they fit within the sociology of language subfield. You should look for a program with scholars in this area. Joshua Fishman would have been an ideal advisor to you, but he passed away last year. To further complicate matters, it seems that many people currently working in this area are not in Sociology departments, but in other disciplines like Anthropology. A lot of the most important work is also being done outside of the U.S., so you should be prepared to collaborate internationally (and maybe consider getting your Ph.D. - or doing part of it - overseas).

Brown should definitely be in your list. Texas-Austin also has several people interested in the topic. Washington used to be somewhat strong in this area, but I don't know if that's still true. You could try Harvard (Filiz Garip is there). Also, UCLA has a few faculty who do this stuff (Waldinger, Hernandez-Leon). The Sociology program at Rice is quite new, and I don't believe it's ranked yet, but it has a strong immigration focus. As for Canada, I have an acquaintance who got her PhD in McGill and wrote her dissertation on international migration, so that's another possibility.

Well, as I understand it, the way to go with Carnegie Mellon is to join the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), In order to work with the center, you need to be a student in one of the following PhD programs at the university; http://casos.cs.cmu.edu/phd/ They also have a Summer Institute and a Certificate in Social Network Analysis.

PhD in Network Science at Northeastern University can probably be useful to some people here: http://www.northeastern.edu/networkscience/

Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research (rotates between European cities every one or two years). http://www.slls.org.uk/#!publications/c112o