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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.
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences: A Data Mining Approach
American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy
Population Health in America
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd Edition
Sorry I Don't Dance - Why Men Refuse to Move
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Undergraduate
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Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society
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copy_of_AKDMembershipActivationForm.pdf
AKD_Application.xls
AKDMembershipRequirementForm.pdf
Sample_Proposal_1_Max_Lisch.pdf
Sample_Proposal_2_Nastassya_Ferns.pdf
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Lofland Research Award
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Caren Weintraub: Communications Director
Courses
Course Descriptions
Planned 2021-2022 Undergraduate Courses
Research
Research Spotlight
Undergraduate Research Spotlight
Graduate Research Spotlight
Faculty Research Spotlight
Research Clusters
Gender Research Cluster
Governance Research Cluster
Health and Social Welfare Research Cluster
Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Research Cluster
Social Control Research Cluster
Social Transformations Research Cluster
Selected Faculty Publications
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.
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
Knowledge Discovery in the Social Sciences: A Data Mining Approach
American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
Stories from the Front of the Room: How Higher Faculty of Color Overcome Challenges and Thrive in the Academy
Population Health in America
Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd Edition
Sorry I Don't Dance - Why Men Refuse to Move
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Brian Halpin Wins the 2020 ASUCD Excellence in Education Award
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Stephanie Mudge named 2020-21 Chancellor's Fellow
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Sociology Colloquium Series: "Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era" by Matt Rafalow
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