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Welcome to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis! If you are a sociology major or considering becoming a sociology major; if you are trying to decide where to attend graduate school; or if you hope to learn more about who our faculty are and what we do -- you've come to the right place.
We teach over 8,000 students each year and have about 600 majors. Our graduate program has approximately 70 full-time students. Sociology has 25 faculty members as well as faculty affiliates from departments around the campus, including Community and Regional Development, Ethnic Studies, African American and African Studies, and the Graduate School of Management.
Our core areas of research expertise revolve around stratification, inequality, and social change, with faculty focusing on labor markets, social movements, state theory, race and ethnic identity, social psychology, immigration, deviance, law, intimate relationships, culture, and health care, to name just a few topics.
Enjoy your exploration of UC Davis sociology!
Vicki Smith
Professor and Chair
Upcoming Events
Doctors' Views of Cultural CompetencyMing-Cheng Lo May 23, 2008
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Narrative Identity
Bruce Haynes June 06, 2008
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News & Announcements
New article on patient culture by Ming-cheng Lo and Clare Stacey published in Sociology of Health and Illness In response to widely documented racial and ethnic disparities in health, clinicians and public health advocates have taken great strides to implement ‘culturally competent’ care. While laudable, this important policy and intellectual endeavour has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity and rigour. This paper develops a more careful conceptual model for understanding the role of culture in the clinical encounter, paying particular attention to the relationship between culture, contexts and social structures.
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Brian Dick Awarded Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Brian Dick was awarded the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education in the amount of $25,000 for the writing of his dissertation, Legitimating Superstring Theory: A Sociological Analysis of a Theory of Everything. The Spencer Foundations Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education.
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State High School Exit Exams and Labor Market Outcomes In an article published in the January issue of Sociology of Education, John Robert Warren (University of Minnesota), Eric Grodsky and Jennifer Lee (Indiana University) find no evidence that state high school exit exams (HSEEs) positively affect college participation, labor force status or earnings or that the connections between state HSEE policies and these outcomes vary by students’ race/ethnicity or the level of difficulty of state HSEEs.
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Dina Okamoto and Kimberly Ebert Awarded Grant from Russell Sage Foundation Dina Okamoto and Kimberly Ebert were awarded a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation in the amount of $165,835 to support their research project, "The Civic and Political Incorporation of Immigrants in Non-Traditional Destinations."
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