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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
Advising
ANT, ME/SA, SOC Advising Office
Sociology advisors are available weekdays to assist students individually with academic planning, course selection, career pathway development and other matters related to the major and staying on course toward graduation.
FAQs
Answers to frequently asked questions about the undergraduate program in the UC Davis Department of Sociology.
Consider Graduate School
Sociology is an excellent major applicable to numerous fields of study at the postgraduate level.
Learning Outcomes
Students in the sociology and organizational studies majors at UC Davis are trained and assessed in accordance with the standards of the American Sociological Association. The discipline of sociology historically has revolved around the mission to understand the meaning of society, analyze the social world critically, look beyond the surface of issues to discover the why,1 analyze the linkages between individuals and societies, and question the power relations undergirding the organization of contemporary societies. We strive to equip students with the skills to enter the labor market or move on to graduate-level training in multiple fields.
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