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Welcome to Sociology!We are an intellectually exciting and typically rambunctious community of citizen scholars. Every year around 150 new undergraduate majors and 10 to 15 new PhD students join our ranks. We have added eight faculty members in the last three years and our total faculty size is currently twenty-five. In addition The Social and Demographic Institute (SADRI) and the Labor Center are both an integral part of the Sociology Department. SADRI supports faculty research and interests, interdisciplinary collaboration and is a central part to the College of Social Behavioral Sciences scholarly endeavors. The Labor Center recently merged with the department bringing faculty, staff as well as two Master programs and a Labor Extension program. We are a generalist sociology department with a wide variety of research interests. Recent books and articles by faculty members have addressed the creation of global capitalist markets, comparative adolescent sexuality, Viagra, democratization, the revival of the labor movement, workplace discrimination, grammars of death, white collar criminal conspiracies, comparative family policy, comparative racial inequality, the socialization of Chinese adopted children, Latin American social movements, women's workforce and men’s household labor participation, and many other topics. The graduate program is loosely organized around a series of intellectual clusters that reflect ongoing faculty research interests. These include Culture and Identity; Crime, Law and Deviance; Gender, Sexuality and Family; Politics, Movements and Globalization; Race, Immigration and Citizenship; Social Demography; Social Networks; Work, Organization and Economy. The undergraduate program is one of the most popular on campus. Both programs are undergoing significant curriculum enhancements this year. The department is at once committed to excellent education, basic research and to be a leader in the project of public sociology.
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More News Hilton Kelly's (Ph.D. 2007) book, Race, Remembering and Jim Crow's Teachers, was selected by the American Education Studies Association 2011 Critic's Choice Award. Emeriti Professors Anthony Harris and Gene Fisher with Dr. Stephen H. Thomas, published their research findings on racial disparities in post-injury deaths from assaults among patients in U.S. trauma centers in the Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection and Critical Care.Read MoreAndrew Papachristos and colleagues at the Urban Institute at CUNY received a MacArthur Grant in support of The Chicago Violence Reduction Inititative. Jonathan Wynn's monograph "The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York", University of Chicago Press, the book hit the stands in August. Robert Faulkner and Howard Becker's 2009 book was just published in Spanish, "Do you Know. . .?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action, Chicago University Press. He also just published Corporate Wrongdoing and the Art of the Accusation, by Anthem Press. Listen to Amy Schalet's radio interview at KUOW.org on her forthcoming book, Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex. Eve Weinbaum and Rachel Roth's Op-Ed appeared in the L.A. Times, "Beyond suffrage: How far have women come since?
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