Sociology News

Jonathan H. Turner “The Consequences of the Transforming of American Sociology Association, and Sociology More Generally, into a Movement Organization” Abstract: Over the last fifty years, sociology has been moving toward activism, while at the same time reducing its earlier commitments to science. It was perhaps inevitable that the conflict...

Monica Prasad "Does it Work in Theory?" Abstract: This talk introduces problem-solving sociology as an attempt to resolve several problems that arise within the rationalist, emancipatory, and skeptical traditions of sociology. Strategies for conducting problem-solving sociology are discussed, and frequently voiced objections are addressed (e.g. "who decides what is a...

Rahman, M. M., Islam Arif, Md. S., Mahdi, I., Rafi, Md. A., Chisty, M. A., & Khan, S. J. (2022). Cyclone vulnerability in ethnic minority: A case study among Rakhain community of Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , 83 , 103449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103449 .

Rick Rogers published an article in Demography . The lead author, Andrea Tilstra, graduated from our department and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.

Holly Nguyen Pennsylvania State University Gains-Loss Asymmetry of Jobs and Income Employment is one of the key factors related to the cessation of criminal behavior, or desistance (Sampson and Laub, 1993; Uggen, 2000). Theoretically, gaining stable employment strengthens conventional social bonds, structures day-to-day activities, and offers economic reprieve. Over the...

Lauren Duquette-Rury Wayne State University Naturalizing Under Threat: Citizenship in the Age of Enforcement Anti-immigrant rhetoric, hardline immigration policies, and policing threaten many immigrants’ social rights, security to remain, and sense of belonging in the United States. In this book talk, Professor Duquette-Rury explains the conditions under which people naturalize...

Lori Peek served as an invited panelist for the Virtual Book launch for Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster. The event was hosted by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.