Rural Sociology

Degrees Offered:

• PhD Sociology
  • Cultural Ecology specialization
  • Demography specialization
  • Family Studies specialization
  • Race, Class, Gender Intersections specialization
  • Social Deviance specialization
  • Social Organization specialization
• MS Rural Sociology
  • Applied Research specialization
  • Community Development specialization (through Great Plains IDEA)
  • Criminal Justice specialization
  • Demography specialization
  • Family Studies specialization

Graduate Coordinator: Distinguished Professor Donna J. Hess

For additional information contact:
Mailing address: SDSU Box 504                 Phone: 605/688-4132
Scobey Hall — SSB 226                               Fax: 605/688-6354
WWW: http://sociology.sdstate.edu
E-mail: donna.hess@sdstate.edu

Graduate Faculty

Donald Arwood, Professor, PhD, South Dakota State University, 1989 Research Methods, Demography, Theory

Donna J. Hess, Distinguished Professor, PhD, Michigan State University, 1974 Qualitative Methods, North American Indians

Diane Kayongo-Male, Professor, PhD, Michigan State University, 1974 Social Theory, Demography, Evaluation Methods

Robert Mendelsohn, Professor, PhD, Western Michigan University, 1973 Social Theory, Social Deviance, Research Methods

Meredith Redlin, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Kentucky, 2000 Rural Community Development, Race, Class and Gender

Ronald Stover, Professor, PhD, University of Georgia-Athens, 1975 Anthropology, Industrial Sociology