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Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, publishes new paper in the American Journal of Sociology, titled, "The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South"
Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, publishes new paper in the American Journal of Sociology, titled,Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was selected as a nominee for the 2022 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was selected as a nominee for the 2022 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for ExcellJoão Nery Fiocchi Rodrigues, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, awarded the Nancy M. Farriss Award
João Nery Fiocchi Rodrigues, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, who was awarded the Nancy M. Farriss Award from the Center for Latin American & Latinx Studies!Dylan Farrell-Bryan, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, and Ian Peacock, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at UCLA, published a data visualization in Socius titled, "Who Gets Deported? Immigrant Removal Rates by National Origin and Period, 1998 to 2021"
Dylan Farrell-Bryan (PhD Candidate in Sociology) and Ian Peacock (Sociology, UCLA) published a data visualization in SociusCourtney Boen, Professor of Demography and Sociology, publishes new paper in the Journal of Marriage and Family
Courtney Boen, Professor of Demography and Sociology, Hannah Olson, Ph.D.
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Vatican II
A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history.
Planning and Control of Land Development
By: Lance Freeman, With Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press.
Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials
By: Lance Freeman, Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press
On the Make
The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
David Grazian’s riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons.
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Develops a performance theory of Red Guard factional violence and traces the ritual process of the transformation of a political generation over a period of forty years.
What would you do?
Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death.
The Wuhan Lockdown
Presenting the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people in their own voices, The Wuhan Lockdown is an unparalleled account of the first moments of the crisis that would define the age.
Gender Inequality at Work
This book addresses many of the dimensions of gender inequality at work, looking at a number of important topics including: pay equity; the impact of feminization on certain professions; and barrie
