http://sociology.ucdavis.edu daily 1 2007-07-26T23:29:07Z http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/raoul-lievanos-awarded-two-research-fellowships Raoul Liévanos has been awarded a UC Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships (CFERP) Predissertation Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources in the amount of $2,000 for summer 2008. CFERP fellowships are highly competitive and open to graduate and undergraduate students from all over the U.S. The program goals are (1) to develop good participatory research skills in practitioners, (2) to nurture a new generation of scholars committed to engaging constructively with communities, and (3) to build community capacity to steward natural resources and have a voice in their own affairs. This predissertation fellowship will allow Liévanos to explore potential field sites for future research and will aid him as the current lead field researcher and project manager for the “Environmental Justice Coalition for Water Delta Health Study.” Funded additionally by the Rose Foundation and the UC Davis Environmental Justice Project, this project seeks to identify and assess the full range of environmental risks and concerns to human health resulting from poor water quality in the Delta, and sharing this information with participating communities, the broader public, and policy-makers in the Delta Vision Strategic Planning process. No publisher darkwolf Grants Awards 2008-08-19T22:37:20Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/david-orzechowicz-priviledged-emotion-managers In the June 2008 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly, this ethnographic piece considers the structural conditions under which actors engage in emotion management and challenges the long standing emphasis in the emotions literature on the ways organizations constrain people's abilities to evoke and suppress feelings. David argues that theatre provides actors with resources that enable feeling management. He identifies three structures - theatre's division of labor, the rehearsal process, and formal training - that give actors important advantages in managing emotions compared to many other social settings. These structures outsource some emotion management from actors to others involved in the production of a show and provide a set of institutionally prescribed strategies that actors use to manage feelings in a production. No publisher darkwolf 2008-07-28T20:38:59Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/dina-okamoto-is-the-recipient-of-the-asa-section-on-asia-and-asian-americas-early-career-award Dina Okamoto was announced as the recipient of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America's Early Career Award. The Section's Early Career Award recognizes a scholar in the early stage of her/his career (no more than 10 years post Ph.D. award date) and who is conducting exemplary research on the sociology of Asia or Asian American communities. Dina will receive her award at the ASA Meetings in Boston in August. No publisher jchamm 2008-06-17T22:17:40Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/sarah-ovink-awarded-national-science-foundation-dissertation-grant-for-2008-09 The NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant is for Sarah's dissertation, tentatively entitled "Mexican-Americans and the College Attendance Gap." No publisher jiwung 2008-06-17T22:08:48Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/lighting-the-fire-inside-vilification-in-the-pro-life-and-pro-choice-movements-received-an-honorable-mention Sarah Augusto's paper, "Lighting the Fire Inside: Vilification in the Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Movements," has received an Honorable Mention in the Graduate Student Paper Award Competition of the ASA Emotions Section. No publisher jchamm Awards Papers 2008-06-10T20:55:25Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/diane-felmlee-awarded-outstanding-mentor-award-from-the-consortium-for-women-and-research The award honors Academic Senate and Academic Federation members for mentoring post-docs, graduate students and/or undergraduates in research, professional development. No publisher jiwung 2008-06-03T16:17:19Z News Item http://sociology.ucdavis.edu/news/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. No publisher jchamm 2008-05-05T21:36:06Z News Item