Department of Sociology
Faculty NewsCongratulations to Janice Irvine who received a Fulbright Scholarship to do research in Croatia on sexuality in a post-socialist society. Jen Lundquist's paper "Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction in the Military: The Effect of a Meritocratic Institution," is in the June issue of ASR and is the highlighted article from that issue on the ASA webpage. Read More Andrew Papachristos's proposal to develop a very long network time series on the Chicago mob was funded by the Faculty Research Grant Program and the University Research Committee. Congratulations to Doug Anderton who was elected to the Sociological Research Association (SRA). Read More
Graduate Student News Dustin Avent-Holt received a National Science Foundation dissertation improvement grant. Amrita Pande recently received two fellowships: an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and a Graduate School Fellowship from UMass Amherst. Andy Inkster received a 3-year Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. *****
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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 added two new faculty members this past year and will add five more next year. We are a generalist sociology department with a wide variety of research interests. Recent books and articles by faculty members have addressed such diverse issues as 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 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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Events & AnnouncementsStudent Sociological Council Organized! Undergraduate Sociology majors met for a second time on Thursday, March 27 to elect a steering committee for the Council: Maris Joniec, Jill McLaughlin, Kristen Redford, Christopher Ward and Maridath Wilson. Updates of upcoming events and activities will be announced soon.
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Department of Sociology, Thompson
Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 phone: 413.545.0577 fax:413.545.3204 email: Sociology |
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