April 2024 News

Elijah Anderson Explains Importance of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro.’

Thu, 03/07/2024

In an interview in The Conversation Yale Sociologist Elijah Anderson talks about the background of W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking study “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study,” published in 1899 and why it is still relevant today. Read more...

Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea.

Wed, 02/14/2024

Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea. She will write about K-Pop, K-Dramas (and the Korean Wave), and sociological topics of interest to South Koreans and Americans. Her first column, “The Appeal of K-Pop to Read more...

Sociology Student Kayla Thomas Reflects on the Value a Graduate Policy Fellowship with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Brought Her

Thu, 12/21/2023

Being an ISPS policy fellow gave Kayla Thomas the opportunity for interdisciplinary feedback on her research on how residents in her home of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., manage and navigate ongoing neighborhood phenomena, such as gentrification, policing, and increasing reports of antisemitism Read more...

Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao Interviewed by BBC on K-pop Star BTS' Upcoming Army Stint

Tue, 12/19/2023

BTS, Korea’s most popular K-pop band is going on hiatus at the height of their career to carry out their compulsory military service, as reported in a story in the BBC. According to Grace Kao who studies and teaches about popularKorean culture, ”it’s a reality that many in South Read more...

News Concerning Xiaohong Xu

Wed, 12/13/2023

We sadly announce that Xiaohong Xu (PhD 2014) passed away on December 12 in Ann Arbor, surrounded by family and friends following a long struggle with cancer. He was 45 years old. His colleagues at Michigan have written a moving obituary: https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/news-events/all-news/faculty- Read more...

CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander addressing the 2023 Meeting of the Civil Sphere Working Group held in October in Heidelberg, Germany

Tue, 11/28/2023

The Civil Sphere Working Group is composed of theorists and empirical social scientists who share the goal of developing and revising Civil Sphere Theory, fifteen years after its seminal formulation in Jeffrey C. Alexander’s The Civil Sphere (Oxford UP, 2006). Read more...

Recent Sociology Department Graduate and current CCS Faculty Fellow Todd Madigan Shares Newest Publication

Tue, 11/28/2023

CCS Faculty Fellow Todd Madigan most recent publication, “Inverted Totems: On the Significance of “Woke” in the Culture Wars,” has recently been published in the journal Religions - part of the Religions Special Issue “Culture Wars and Their Socioreligious Background” co-edited by CCS Faculty Read more...

CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander, has been awarded the honorary academic degree of doctor honoris causa at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Mon, 11/27/2023

Elijah Anderson published an essay on White backlash against Black success in the Atlantic.

Thu, 11/09/2023

Elijan Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale, and a recent Stockholm Prize Laureate, published an essay in the Atlantic magazine on “Black Success, White Backlash” and how that affects life for people of color in the U.S. Read more...

Philip Gorsky interviewed on the influence of Christian Nationalism on American politics by Meghna Chakrabarti on NPR’s “On Point.”

Tue, 11/07/2023

Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Yale Sociology Department was interviewed about the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and the influence of Christian Nationalism on American politics by Meghna Chakrabarti on NPR’s “On Point.” Read more...