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Community at Risk: Biodefense and the Collective Search for Security
Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis
Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement
The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows
Doctors and Demonstrators: How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
Sociology on Culture
Culture: Sociological Perspectives
Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements, Social Order and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan
Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity
Cultures of Inquiry: From Epistemology to Discourse in Sociohistorical Research
Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History
The Ways Out: Utopian Communal Groups in an Age of Babylon (International Library of Society)
The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies
Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb
Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives
Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan
Britain and World Power since 1945: Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics (Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics)
Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes
The Good Temp
Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia
Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism by Eddy U
Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in an American Bank
From Auschwitz to Ithaca: The Transnational Journey of Jake Geldwert
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Identities and Memories in Jewish Diasporas
Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland
Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java
Feminist Dilemmas In Fieldwork
Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime.
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Faculty Research Spotlight
Researchers in the Department of Sociology are engaged in a variety of research projects intended to improve understanding of complex cultural and societal problems.
Our faculty members are making important contributions to scholarly literature in numerous topics of inquiry, including ethnicity and race, poverty, economic mobility, labor market shifts, police shootings, and racial bias. This page spotlights representative examples of the momentous research projects that are under way in the UC Davis Department of Sociology.
Research Clusters
The research concentrations of faculty and doctoral candidates in the Department of Sociology are organized within six topical clusters.
Selected Faculty Publications