Structurally_Holly

There's little money in studying theory and few faculty positions

OP, I feel your pain. Not to take over your thread, but I'm in a similar boat; though there are aspects I really enjoy about what I'm doing now (mostly relating to stats and programming), I don't like the end result...aka being a sociologist...

Talk to the grad students. Go to the schools' webpages and cold-email the grad students. They're pretty likely to get back to you ad they'll give you the real dirt on the departments

Duke (Student of Peter Bearman) CMU (decision sciences - Kathleen Carley (former student of Harrison White) advised Carter) Northwestern (lots), UWashington (lots), Harvard/MIT, Columbia (Peter Bearman), UNC (can take classes at Duke), UCLA, Stanford (McFarland), Chicago (some - Ron Burt's in the B-school), Michigan (lots), Northeastern (CS - David Lazer), Irvine (Carter (student of Carley), Faust (wrote the textbook)) for sure, some at Yale (former students of Peter Bearman), UMass (former student of Carter's), U Maryland (HCI - Ben Schneiderman), Kentucky (Borgati - wrote UCInet), Indiana (Wasserman) Kinda depends what you're looking for/what you want to focus on. How quant do you want to be? Do you want to be a pure methodologist? Are you in it for the visualizations or the graph theory?

Hi, I'm a second year soc student and wanted to get some input on taking a break from school. The reasons aren't so important. To make a long story short, my advisor does a lot of med soc and exposed me to a lot of medicine, and made me realize I want to go to med school. Does anyone have any experience with leaving early? I want to keep up my relations with the people here - especially my advisor...Are there details I need to give? I would like to finish my PhD at some point, but definitely not within my funded time frame... Any input would be great...